greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life; only interested in saving one's neck
trad. 貪生怕死
Also written 貪生怕死【tān shēng pà sǐ】
Characters in this word
4贪
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to have a voracious desire for, to covet, greedy, corrupt
- Pinyin
- tān
- Traditional
- 貪
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 27733 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
怕
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surname Pa
- Pinyin
- Pà
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 785 of 2500
死
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to die, impassable, uncrossable, inflexible, rigid, extremely, damned
- Pinyin
- sǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 113 of 2500