From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「半死半生」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「半死半生」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
① Not completely dead. ② A metaphor for a meaningless, lifeless and mediocre life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bàn sǐ bàn shēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bun3 sei2 bun3 saang1/sang1
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