From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「生離死別」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「生離死別」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Separation is like a farewell to the dead. Refers to a farewell that is difficult to see each other again or a permanent farewell.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shēng lí sǐ bié
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saang1/sang1 lei4 sei2 bit6
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