一代人

yídàirén

phrase #33,402

Meanings

1 a generation (of people)
2 one generation

Characters

Examples

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.

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