死里逃生

Traditional form:

死裡逃生

Pinyin (reading):

sǐlǐtáoshēng

Definitions:

• mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape
• to survive by the skin of one's teeth

Characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 逃 - to abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth

Traditional characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 裡 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 逃 - to abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth