好死不如赖活着

Traditional form:

好死不如賴活著

Pinyin (reading):

hǎosǐbùrúlàihuózhe

Definitions:

• better a bad life than a good death (idiom)

Characters:

• 好 - good, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 赖 - to depend on, to rely on; to bilk, to deny; poor
• 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
• 着 - to make a move, to take action

Traditional characters:

• 好 - good, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 賴 - to depend on, to rely on; to bilk, to deny; poor
• 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
• 著 - to show, to prove, to make known