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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「雖死猶生」 here, with meaning and examples.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「雖死猶生」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Just as: as. It means that although a person is dead, his spirit is immortal and his example still exists. It also means that one has no worries or regrets, and is as alive as if he were still alive.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

suī sǐ yóu shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seui1 sei2 yau4 saang1/sang1

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