一世人

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (一世人)		一	世	人

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ sai³ jan⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chi̍t-sì-lâng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêg⁸ si³ nang⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ sai³ jan⁴
    • Yale: yāt sai yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ sai³ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ sei³ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ sɐi̯³³ jɐn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t-sì-lâng
    • Tâi-lô: tsi̍t-sì-lâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cidsielaang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² si²¹⁻⁵³ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚²⁴⁻² si⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ si²¹⁻⁵³ laŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² si¹¹⁻⁵³ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² si²¹⁻⁴¹ laŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêg⁸ si³ nang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tse̍k sì nâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sek̚⁴⁻² si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ naŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 一世人

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min) lifetime; all one's life

   我唔可以陪你一世人。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   ngo⁵ m⁴ ho² ji⁵ pui⁴ nei⁵ jat¹ sai³ jan⁴. [Jyutping]

   I cannot accompany you for a lifetime.

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)

• 一世 (yīshì)
• 一生 (yīshēng)
• 一生一世 (yīshēngyīshì)
• 一輩子／一辈子 (yībèizi) (colloquial)
• 世 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
• 平生 (píngshēng)
• 永世 (yǒngshì)
• 永生 (yǒngshēng)
• 沒世／没世 (mòshì)
• 生平 (shēngpíng)
• 畢生／毕生 (bìshēng)
• 終生／终生 (zhōngshēng)
• 終身／终身 (zhōngshēn)
• 輩／辈 (bèi)
• 輩子／辈子 (bèizi)

 

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #9”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.