4 characters Idiom and proverb 7 893

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 「死有餘罪」, with details below.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「死有餘罪」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

He still deserves to die. It means that the crime is so heinous that even the death penalty cannot atone for his sins.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sǐ yǒu yú zuì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sei2 yau5 yu4 jeui6

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