长命百岁 meaning in English
(idiom) to live to be a hundred years old (often used as a blessing or wish for longevity)
Traditional 長命百歲24 strokes
Meaning of 长命百岁
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chángmìngbǎisuì
- (idiom) to live to be a hundred years old (often used as a blessing or wish for longevity)
长命百岁 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
祝你长命百岁！
May you live long!
想长命百岁有一个万无一失的方法：每天吃一颗狮子头，吃一百年。
There's one surefire way to live to a ripe old age: eat a meatball a day for a hundred years.
Stroke order for each character
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长 cháng · long · 4 strokes
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命 mìng · life · 8 strokes
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百 bǎi · hundred · 6 strokes
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岁 suì · classifier for years · 6 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 长命百岁.
| 长大 | zhǎngdà | to grow up |
| 队长 | duìzhǎng | captain; team leader |
| 市长 | shìzhǎng | mayor |
| 校长 | xiàozhǎng | (college, university) president; headmaster |
| 家长 | jiāzhǎng | head of a household; family head |
| 院长 | yuànzhǎng | the head of an institution whose name ends in 院[yuan4]; chair of a board; university presi |
| 组长 | zǔzhǎng | group leader |
| 班长 | bānzhǎng | class monitor; squad leader |
| 生命 | shēngmìng | life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2]) |
| 命运 | mìngyùn | fate; destiny |
| 部长 | bùzhǎng | head of a (government etc) department; section chief |
| 成长 | chéngzhǎng | to mature; to grow |
Questions about 长命百岁
What does 长命百岁 mean?
长命百岁 (chángmìngbǎisuì) means "(idiom) to live to be a hundred years old (often used as a blessing or wish for longevity)".
How do you write 长命百岁?
长命百岁 is made of 4 characters: 长 (4 strokes), 命 (8 strokes), 百 (6 strokes), 岁 (6 strokes). That is 24 strokes in total.
How is 长命百岁 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 长命百岁 is written 長命百歲.