壽 (shòu)
Long life; longevity; birthday.
How 壽 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 士 — scholar
- Traditional
- 壽
- Simplified
- 寿
Common words using 壽
- 壽司 shòusī
- sushi
- 壽命 shòumìng
- life span; life expectancy
- 壽星 shòuxīng
- god of longevity
- 長壽 chángshòu
- Changshou suburban district of Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
- 壽光 shòuguāng
- Shouguang county level city in Weifang 濰坊|潍坊[Wei2 fang1], Shandong
- 壽比南山 shòubǐnánshān
- Live as long as Mt Nan! (idiom, conventional greeting); We wish you a Happy Birthday and many more of them.
- 壽終正寢 shòuzhōngzhèngqǐn
- to die of old age; to die in one's bed at a ripe old age
- 壽麵 shòumiàn
- birthday noodles (for longevity)
- 延壽 yánshòu
- Yanshou county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Heilongjiang; to extend life
- 延年益壽 yánniányìshòu
- to make life longer; to promise longevity; (this product will) extend your life
- 祝壽 zhùshòu
- birthday congratulations
- 高壽 gāoshòu
- longevity; venerable age; your venerable age?
壽 in a sentence
奶奶正在做八十歲大壽。
Nǎinai zhèngzài zuò bāshí suì dàshòu.
“Grandma is celebrating her 80th birthday.”
How common is 壽?
壽 is the 1,613th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.3% of all running text.
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