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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「生死存亡」, with details below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「生死存亡」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

To live or to die. Describes a situation or struggle that has reached its final stage.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shēng sǐ cún wáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sang1 sei2 chyun4 mong4

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