畢ひっ生せい

noun, adverb

lifetime; one's whole life

Literary word meaning the entirety of one's life. Often used in set phrases like 畢生の大作 (one's life's work) or 畢生の事業 (one's life's enterprise).

• この絵えは彼かれの畢ひっ生せいの大たい作さくだ。

  This painting is his life's great work.

• 彼かれは畢ひっ生せいをかけてこの研けん究きゅうに取とり組くんだ。

  He devoted his entire life to this research.