半死不活 — Chinese idiom
半死不活
bàn sǐ bù huó
Meaning
- half-dead; barely alive
- listless
Character by character
- 半bànhalf; semi-, incomplete
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 活huóto exist, to live, to survive; living, working
Idioms sharing a character
- 一官半职 yī guān bàn zhí
- 一时半刻 yī shí bàn kè
- 一男半女 yī nán bàn nǚ
- 一知半解 yī zhī bàn jiě
- 一鳞半爪 yī lín bàn zhǎo
- 三更半夜 sān gēng bàn yè
- 事倍功半 shì bèi gōng bàn
- 事半功倍 shì bàn gōng bèi
- 半信半疑 bàn xìn bàn yí
- 半推半就 bàn tuī bàn jiù
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