Chinese symbol for “lifetime”
一辈子
yī bèi zi
Traditional: 一輩子
(for) a lifetime
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lifetime is 一辈子 (yī bèi zi), defined as: (for) a lifetime.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lifetime”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辈 (輩) | bèi | lifetime; generation |
| 寿限 (壽限) | shòu xiàn | lifetime; length of life |
| 世 | shì | life; age |
| 生 | shēng | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur |
| 寿命 (壽命) | shòu mìng | life span; life expectancy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 一辈子.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一个 (一個) | yī ge | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) |
| 一些 | yī xiē | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 一样 (一樣) | yī yàng | same; like |
| 一定 | yī dìng | surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | (in) the same place; together; in company (with) |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through |
| 前辈 (前輩) | qián bèi | senior; older generation |
| 长辈 (長輩) | zhǎng bèi | one's elders; older generation |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
See also: Japanese symbol for “lifetime”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.