誓死不从 — Chinese idiom
誓死不从
shì sǐ bù cóng
Traditional: 誓死不從
Meaning
- to vow to die rather than obey
Character by character
- 誓shìto swear, to pledge; oath
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 从cóngfrom, by, since, whence, through
Idioms sharing a character
- 山盟海誓 shān méng hǎi shì
- 海誓山盟 hǎi shì shān méng
- 盟山誓海 méng shān shì hǎi
- 誓不两立 shì bù liǎng lì
- 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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