"Forever" • Chinese-English Dictionary

DICTIONARY OPTIONS
CHARACTERS : Simplified Traditional
PHONETIC : Pinyin Bopomofo EFEO Wade-Giles Yale
» Search by Radical
永远 yǒng yuǎn forever / eternal
永久 yǒng jiǔ everlasting / perpetual / lasting / forever / permanent
永世 yǒng shì eternal / forever
长 cháng length / long / forever / always / constantly
永 yǒng forever / always / perpetual
永矢 yǒng shǐ forever
遐终 xiá zhōng forever
永生 yǒng shēng to live forever / eternal life / all one's life
连绵 lián mián continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
永别 yǒng bié to part forever / eternal parting (i.e. death)
一去不复返 yī qù bù fù fǎn gone forever
永存 yǒng cún everlasting / to endure forever
遥遥无期 yáo yáo wú qī far in the indefinite future (idiom) / so far away it seems forever
长存 cháng cún to last for a long time / to endure / to exist forever
海枯石烂 hǎi kū shí làn lit. when the seas run dry and the stones go soft (idiom) / fig. forever / until the end of time
细水长流 xì shuǐ cháng liú lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
有去无回 yǒu qù wú huí gone forever (idiom)
与世长辞 yǔ shì cháng cí to die / to depart from the world forever
永诀 yǒng jué to part forever / eternal parting (i.e. death)
孝思不匮 xiào sī bù kuì to be forever filial (idiom)
好景不长 hǎo jǐng bù cháng a good thing doesn't last forever (idiom)
万古长青 wàn gǔ cháng qīng remain fresh / last forever / eternal
一去不回 yī qù bù huí gone forever
杳如黄鹤 yǎo rú huáng hè to be gone forever (idiom) / to disappear without a trace
永逝 yǒng shì gone forever / to die
石投大海 shí tóu dà hǎi to disappear like a stone dropped into the sea / to vanish forever without trace
万古长新 wàn gǔ cháng xīn to remain forever new (idiom)
青春永驻 qīng chūn yǒng zhù to stay young forever
躲得过初一，躲不过十五 duǒ de guò chū yī , duǒ bù guò shí wǔ lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom) / fig. you can't put it off forever / sooner or later you'll have to deal with it
丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆 chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yě děi jiàn gōng pó lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever
没有不透风的墙 méi yǒu bù tòu fēng de qiáng (idiom) no secret can be kept forever
Chinese Tones