贪生怕死
Traditional form:
貪生怕死
Pinyin (reading):
tānshēngpàsǐ
Definitions:
- greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly
- clinging abjectly to life
- only interested in saving one's neck
Characters:
- 贪 - greedy, covetous; corrupt
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 怕 - to fear, to be afraid of; apprehensive
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
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