粵

長coeng4命meng6

simp长命
coeng4 meng6cháng mìng

English

  1. long-lived
  2. long life; longevity
  3. long-living; of a long life

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 能夠生存到好多年;壽命長

Examples

  • 我阿爺同阿爸都好長命,兩個都有九十歲。

    My grandpa and dad lived long. Both of them lived up to ninety years old.

  • 女人通常長命過男人。

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 祝你长命百岁!

    May you live long!

    Tatoeba · gumblex CC BY

  • “好人不长命”是句或真或假的老话。

    "The good die young" is an old saying which may or may not be true.

    Tatoeba · verdastelo9604 CC BY

  • 想長命百歲有一個萬無一失的方法:每天吃一顆獅子頭,吃一百年。

    There's one surefire way to live to a ripe old age: eat a meatball a day for a hundred years.

    Tatoeba · LeviHighway CC BY

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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