一代人

yídàirén

phrase #33,402

Meanings

1 a generation (of people)
2 one generation

Characters

Examples

HSK 3

互联网改变了一代人的生活方式。

Hùliánwǎng gǎibiàn le yídàirén de shēnghuó fāngshì.

The internet changed an entire generation's way of life.

HSK 4

这首歌影响了整整一代人。

Zhè shǒu gē yǐngxiǎng le zhěngzhěng yídàirén.

This song influenced an entire generation.

Tips

culture

顾城 (Gu Cheng)'s two-line poem 《一代人》 (A Generation, 1979) - 黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛 / 我却用它寻找光明 ('The dark night gave me dark eyes, yet I use them to seek the light') - is one of the most quoted poems of post-Cultural-Revolution China.

Stroke Order

一 yī

代 dài

人 rén