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Learn about the idiom 「死而不朽」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means that even though the body dies, the words, deeds, etc. live on.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sǐ ér bù xiǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sei2 yi4 bat1 nau2

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