Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「貪生惡死」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「貪生惡死」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Greedy for life, afraid of death. Same as “love life and fear death”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tān shēng è sǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
taam1 sang1 ok3 sei2
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