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死而不僵

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4-character word

What 死而不僵 means

1. dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis
2. to die hard (idiom)
3. to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)

The characters in 死而不僵

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 而érand; as well as; and so
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 僵jiāngrigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)

Words containing 死而不僵

• 百足之虫死而不僵bǎi zú zhī chóng sǐ ér bù jiānga centipede dies but never falls down; old institutions die hard