半条命
Traditional form:
半條命
Pinyin (reading):
bàntiáomìng
Definitions:
- half a life
- only half alive
- barely alive
- (scared, beaten etc) half to death
Characters:
- 半 - half; semi-, incomplete
- 条 - clause, condition; string, stripe
- 命 - life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
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