{"path":"/entry/26612","title":"寿比南山 / 壽比南山 (shòu bǐ nán shān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"寿比南山 / 壽比南山 (shòu bǐ nán shān): Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":26612,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["寿比南山"],"TRADITIONAL":["壽比南山"]}},"phonetic":"shòu bǐ nán shān","phoneticKey":"shou4 bi3 nan2 shan1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"Long may you live!","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":[],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"[One's] life is as long-lasting as the Zhongnan Mountains","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Classic of Poetry, poem 166 (《詩經·小雅·天保》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"如南山之寿，不骞不崩。\n如松柏之茂，无不尔或承。","traditional":"如南山之壽，不騫不崩。\n如松柏之茂，無不爾或承。"},"phonetic":"Rú nánshān zhī shòu, bù qiān bù bēng.\nRú sōngbǎi zhī mào, wú bù ěr huò chéng.","english":"Like the age of the southern hills, Never waning, never falling,\nLike the luxuriance of the fir and the cypress; May such be thy succeeding line!","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}