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死不瞑目

sǐ bù míng mù

4-character word

What 死不瞑目 means

1. lit. not close one's eyes after dying (idiom)
2. fig. to die with an unresolved grievance

The characters in 死不瞑目

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 瞑míngto close (the eyes)
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh

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