長命百歲

长命百岁
chángmìngbǎisuì

live to be a hundred!; live a long life! (expressing good wishes, usually to a child or birthday greetings to older people)

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

=1 長 cháng
  1. long
  2. (bound form) length
  3. (bound form) strong point; forte
  4. (bound form) to be good at
  5. (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. zhàng)
=1 長 zhǎng
  1. chief
  2. head
  3. elder
  4. to grow
  5. to develop
  6. to increase
  7. to enhance
=1 長 zhàng
  1. (archaic) length; measure of length
  2. length; measure of length
2 命 mìng
  1. life
  2. fate
  3. order or command
  4. to assign a name, title etc
3 百歲 bǎisuì
  1. (figurative) one's life
  2. a hundred years
  3. one's life