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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「誓同生死」.

Discover the idiom 「誓同生死」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Vow to live and die together. Describes something that is very close and cannot be separated.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì tóng shēng sǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sai6 tung4 sang1 sei2

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