客死异乡 — Chinese idiom
客死异乡
kè sǐ yì xiāng
Traditional: 客死異鄉
Meaning
- to die in a foreign land
Character by character
- 客kèguest, traveller; customer
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 异yìdifferent, strange, unusual; foreign; surprising
- 乡xiāngcountry, village; rural
Idioms sharing a character
- 不速之客 bù sù zhī kè
- 反客为主 fǎn kè wéi zhǔ
- 问客杀鸡 wèn kè shā jī
- 词人墨客 cí rén mò kè
- 宾客盈门 bīn kè yíng mén
- 顾客至上 gù kè zhì shàng
- 不知死活 bù zhī sǐ huó
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 你死我活 nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
- 兔死狐悲 tù sǐ hú bēi
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