to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius); to choose honor over life; would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles
trad. 捨生取義
Also written 捨生取義【shě shēng qǔ yì】
Characters in this word
4舍
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to give up; to abandon, to give alms
- Pinyin
- shě
- Traditional
- 捨
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 21827 of 2500
生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
取
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to take, to get, to choose, to fetch
- Pinyin
- qǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 3148 of 2500
义
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surname Yi, (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- Pinyin
- Yì
- Traditional
- 義
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 35532 of 2500