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
Resources
- Wiktionary: 物是人非
- MDBG: 物是人非
- Examples with 物是人非 on Tatoeba
Examples
物是人非。