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虎口余生

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4-character word Traditional 虎口餘生

What 虎口余生 means

1. lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom)
2. fig. to narrowly escape death

The characters in 虎口余生

• 虎hǔtiger
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)