to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom); life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure
trad. 生於憂患，死於安樂
Also written 生於憂患，死於安樂【shēng yú yōu huàn , sǐ yú ān lè】
Characters in this word
7生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
于
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surname Yu
- Pinyin
- Yú
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 631 of 2500
忧
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to worry, to concern oneself with, worried, anxiety, sorrow, (literary) to observe mourning
- Pinyin
- yōu
- Traditional
- 憂
- Strokes
- 7
患
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to suffer (from illness), to contract (a disease), misfortune, trouble, danger, worry
- Pinyin
- huàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 9694 of 2500
死
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to die, impassable, uncrossable, inflexible, rigid, extremely, damned
- Pinyin
- sǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 113 of 2500
安
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surname An
- Pinyin
- Ān
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1756 of 2500
乐
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surname Le
- Pinyin
- Lè
- Traditional
- 樂
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 7672 of 2500