有生之年 Save Sign in to save words yǒushēngzhīnián ㄧㄡˇ ㄕㄥ ㄓ ㄋㄧㄢˊ during one's lifetime while one is on this earth in one's remaining years idiom Character by character 有(yǒu)have 生(shēng)grow 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 年(nián)surname Nian A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0