死要面子活受罪

Traditional form:

死要面子活受罪

Pinyin (reading):

sǐyàomiànzihuóshòuzuì

Definitions:

• to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)

Characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 要 - essential, necessary; to ask for; to coerce; to demand
• 面 - face; surface, side; plane, dimension
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
• 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
• 受 - to receive, to get, to accept; to bear
• 罪 - sin, vice; fault, guilt; crime

Traditional characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 要 - essential, necessary; to ask for; to coerce; to demand
• 面 - face; surface, side; plane, dimension
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
• 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
• 受 - to receive, to get, to accept; to bear
• 罪 - sin, vice; fault, guilt; crime