要死不活
Traditional form:
要死不活
Pinyin (reading):
yàosǐbùhuó
Definitions:
- half dead
- more dead than alive
Characters:
- 要 - essential, necessary; to ask for; to coerce; to demand
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
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