人生

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 人生, read じんせい, means a person's lifetime or the experiences that make up that life.
• Basic usage: It is used for something one wants to do once in a lifetime or for looking back on one's life.
  • 人生で一度は長い船旅をしてみたい。

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Scope compared with 生活
  • 人生 concerns a person's lifetime and experiences, while 生活 concerns daily activities and circumstances such as eating, working and getting by.