起死回生 — Chinese idiom
起死回生
qǐ sǐ huí shēng
Meaning
- to rise from the dead ; fig. an unexpected recovery
Character by character
- 起qǐto begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 回huíto return, to turn around; a time
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
Idioms sharing a character
- 一病不起 yī bìng bù qǐ
- 另起炉灶 lìng qǐ lú zào
- 大起大落 dà qǐ dà luò
- 崛地而起 jué dì ér qǐ
- 平地起家 píng dì qǐ jiā
- 后起之秀 hòu qǐ zhī xiù
- 后院起火 hòu yuàn qǐ huǒ
- 思潮起伏 sī cháo qǐ fú
- 承上起下 chéng shàng qǐ xià
- 投袂而起 tóu mèi ér qǐ
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