养生送死 — Chinese idiom
养生送死
yǎng shēng sòng sǐ
Traditional: 養生送死
Meaning
- to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter
Character by character
- 养yǎngto raise, to rear, to bring up; to support
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
- 送sòngto see off, to send off, to dispatch; to give
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
Idioms sharing a character
- 以债养债 yǐ zhài yǎng zhài
- 修心养性 xiū xīn yǎng xìng
- 俭以养廉 jiǎn yǐ yǎng lián
- 姑息养奸 gū xī yǎng jiān
- 遵时养晦 zūn shí yǎng huì
- 韬光养晦 tāo guāng yǎng huì
- 颐性养寿 yí xìng yǎng shòu
- 颐养天年 yí yǎng tiān nián
- 养家活口 yǎng jiā huó kǒu
- 养家糊口 yǎng jiā hú kǒu
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