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贪生怕死

tān shēng pà sǐ

4-character word Traditional 貪生怕死

What 贪生怕死 means

1. greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly
2. clinging abjectly to life
3. only interested in saving one's neck

The characters in 贪生怕死

• 贪tānto have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 怕pàto be afraid; to fear; to dread
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable

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