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  1. things have remained the same, but people have changed

Characters

  • 物 (物): (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
  • 是 (是): to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
  • 人 (人): person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 非 (非): abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa

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Examples

物是人非。

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