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死里逃生

sǐ lǐ táo shēng

4-character word Traditional 死裡逃生

What 死里逃生 means

1. mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape
2. to survive by the skin of one's teeth

The characters in 死里逃生

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 逃táoto escape; to run away; to flee
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

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