Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「死生存亡」 here, with meaning and examples.
We’re presenting the idiom 「死生存亡」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
To live or to die. It is often used to illustrate that the situation has reached a critical moment that will determine the future and fate of the situation. Also written as “life and death”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sǐ shēng cún wáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sei2 sang1 chyun4 mong4
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