长生不老
cháng shēng bù lǎo
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 長生不老
To live for ever without growing old. Used about the old Daoist dream of immortality and emperors' search for elixirs, in stories and history, and jokingly about health fads.
Sống mãi mà không già. Dùng khi nói về ước mơ bất tử của đạo gia, chuyện các vị vua tìm thuốc tiên trong truyện và sử sách, hoặc để nói đùa về các trào lưu dưỡng sinh.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “trường sinh bất lão” = 長生不老 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “trường sinh bất lão” (truong-sinh-bat-lao). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “长生不老” mean?
To live for ever without growing old. Used about the old Daoist dream of immortality and emperors' search for elixirs, in stories and history, and jokingly about health fads. Literally: live long, never grow old
Is “长生不老” formal or informal?
长生不老 is generally neutral.