死而不僵

Traditional form:

死而不僵

Pinyin (reading):

sǐ'érbùjiāng

Definitions:

• dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis
• to die hard (idiom)
• to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)

Characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 僵 - still, stiff, motionless

Traditional characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 僵 - still, stiff, motionless