生涯

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 生涯, read しょうがい, denotes the whole course and duration of a person’s life.
• Basic usage: It covers an entire life devoted to education and the lifelong period during which someone never left a town.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• The span of an entire life
  • It views the whole course of a life, rather than one career period or stage of age.