身先朝露
Traditional form:
身先朝露
Pinyin (reading):
shēnxiānzhāolù
Definitions:
- body will go with the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
Characters:
- 身 - body, torso; person; pregnancy
- 先 - first, former, previous
- 朝 - to face; direct, facing; dynasty; morning
- 露 - dew; leak; bare, exposed; to reveal, to show
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