Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「九死一生」 today with this free Chinese resource.
We’re presenting the idiom 「九死一生」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Describes surviving a great danger. It also describes a situation that is life-or-death and extremely critical.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gau2 sei2 yat1 sang1
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