终身

Pinyin: zhōngshēn

lifelong; all one's life; marriage

Example sentence

我喜欢画油画,但是我不想拿它做我的终身职业。

Wǒ xǐhuan huà yóuhuà, dànshì wǒ bù xiǎng ná tā zuò wǒ de zhōngshēn zhíyè.

I like to do oil painting, but I don't intend to make that my lifelong occupation.

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What 终身 means

终身 (zhōngshēn) is a Chinese word meaning “lifelong; all one's life; marriage”. It appears in the HSK 6 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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