活久見

Chinese

		to live; alive; living to live; alive; living; work; workmanship	(long) time; (long) duration of time	to see; to meet; to appear to see; to meet; to appear; to interview
trad. (活久見)		活	久	見
simp. (活久见)		活	久	见
Literally: “live-long-see”.

Etymology

A pseudo-chengyu condensed from:

活得久什麼事都能見到。 [MSC, trad.]
活得久什么事都能见到。 [MSC, simp.]

Huó dé jiǔ shénme shì dōu néng jiàn dào. [Pinyin]

You can see anything if you live long.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huó jiǔ jiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huó jiǔ jiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huó jiǒu jiàn
    • Wade–Giles: huo² chiu³ chien⁴
    • Yale: hwó jyǒu jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwo jeou jiann
    • Palladius: хо цзю цзянь (xo czju czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

Phrase

活久見

1. (neologism, Internet slang) You can see anything if you live long.

   Used to express one's being amazed when having seen something that is so unusual that is never thought will happen but has happened.