死而不僵 — Chinese idiom
死而不僵
sǐ ér bù jiāng
Meaning
- dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis
- to die hard
- to die yet not be vanquished
Character by character
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 僵jiāngstill, stiff, motionless
Idioms sharing a character
- 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
- 半死不活 bàn sǐ bù huó
- 厚死薄生 hòu sǐ bó shēng
- 垂死挣扎 chuí sǐ zhēng zhá
- 客死异乡 kè sǐ yì xiāng
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