马革裹尸 — Chinese idiom
马革裹尸
mǎ gé guǒ shī
Traditional: 馬革裹屍
Meaning
- to be buried in a horse hide
- to give one's life on the battlefield
Character by character
- 马mǎhorse; surname
- 革géleather, animal hide; to reform; to remove
- 裹guǒto wrap, to encircle; to confine, to bind
- 尸shībody, corpse
Idioms sharing a character
- 一马平川 yī mǎ píng chuān
- 一马当先 yī mǎ dāng xiān
- 中箭落马 zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
- 五马分尸 wǔ mǎ fēn shī
- 人仰马翻 rén yǎng mǎ fān
- 人喊马嘶 rén hǎn mǎ sī
- 人困马乏 rén kùn mǎ fá
- 兵强马壮 bīng qiáng mǎ zhuàng
- 兵荒马乱 bīng huāng mǎ luàn
- 北叟失马 běi sǒu shī mǎ
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