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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「視死如生」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Treat death as if it were life. Describes not being afraid of death. Same as “treat death as life”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì sǐ rú shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si6 sei2 yu4 saang1/sang1

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