宁死不屈 — Chinese idiom
宁死不屈
nìng sǐ bù qū
Traditional: 寧死不屈
Meaning
- rather die than submit
Character by character
- 宁nìngcalm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 屈qūto bend, to flex; bent, crooked, crouched
Idioms sharing a character
- 宁缺毋滥 nìng quē wú làn
- 宁静致远 níng jìng zhì yuǎn
- 息事宁人 xī shì níng rén
- 鸡犬不宁 jī quǎn bù níng
- 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
- 兔死狗烹 tù sǐ gǒu pēng
- 出生入死 chū shēng rù sǐ
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