视死如归 — Chinese idiom
视死如归
shì sǐ rú guī
Traditional: 視死如歸
Meaning
- to view death as a return home
- to not be afraid of dying
- to face death with equanimity
Character by character
- 视shìto look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 如rúas, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 归guīto return, to go back; to return to, to revert
Idioms sharing a character
- 一视同仁 yī shì tóng rén
- 以正视听 yǐ zhèng shì tīng
- 傲视群伦 ào shì qún lún
- 坐视不理 zuò shì bù lǐ
- 怒目而视 nù mù ér shì
- 混淆视听 hùn xiáo shì tīng
- 熟视无睹 shú shì wú dǔ
- 目不忍视 mù bù rěn shì
- 目不斜视 mù bù xié shì
- 相视而笑 xiāng shì ér xiào
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