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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: 「生死肉骨」.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「生死肉骨」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Raw, meat: used as verbs. Bring the dead back to life and grow flesh on bones. Describes a great favor.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shēng sǐ ròu gǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sang1 sei2 yuk6 gwat1

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.