屍骨未寒
shī​gǔ​wèi​hán

while the body is still warm

  • created sense approved 尸骨未寒/屍骨未寒 · shī​gǔ​wèi​hán · while the body is still warm — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    尸骨未寒 / 屍骨未寒

    shī​gǔ​wèi​hán

    while the body is still warm

    Literally "the corpse has not yet grown cold"; describes a situation where someone has only very recently passed away

    尸骨 (literal) → 尸骨/屍骨 · shī​gǔ · corpse 未 (literal) → 未 · wèi · not yet 寒 (literal) → 寒 · hán · cold

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense