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贪生怕死
tān shēng pà sǐ
What 贪生怕死 means
- greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly
- clinging abjectly to life
- 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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