Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「馬革盛屍」 here, with meaning and examples.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「馬革盛屍」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Wrap the body in horsehide. Refers to dying heroically on the battlefield. Same as “die wrapped in horsehide”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
mǎ gé shèng shī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ma5 gaak3 sing6 si1
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