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鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已

jū gōng jìn cuì , sǐ ér hòu yǐ

9-character word Traditional 鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已

What 鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已 means

1. to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life
2. with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day

The characters in 鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已

• 鞠jūto incline (one's torso); to bow; leather ball used in ancient times…
• 躬gōng(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself…
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end
• 瘁cuìcare-worn; distressed; tired
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 而érand; as well as; and so
• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 已yǐalready; to stop; then