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死猪不怕开水烫

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7-character word Traditional 死豬不怕開水燙

What 死猪不怕开水烫 means

1. (lit.) a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water (saying)
2. (fig.) a person who has nothing more to lose will go to any lengths, regardless of the consequences

The characters in 死猪不怕开水烫

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 怕pàto be afraid; to fear; to dread
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 烫tàngto scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking)