1 life

2 fate

3 order or command

4 to assign a name, title etc

1 fate

2 destiny

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]

1 to die

2 death

1 life (as the characteristic of living beings)

2 living being

3 creature

4 classifier: 个 gè

5 classifier: 条 tiáo

1 to die (idiom)

2 to breathe one's last

3 to give up the ghost

1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal

2 fugitive

1 country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction

1 lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)

2 fig. to act belatedly

3 better late than never

4 to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

1 human life is beyond value (idiom)