sǐ​bù​rèn​cuò

to stubbornly refuse to admit a mistake

  1. adverb
    desperately
    at all costs; with all one's might; to the death; desperately
  2. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  3. to admit a mistake
    To acknowledge one's error or apologize; often used in the spoken form 认不是 rèn​bù​shi