tān​shēng

to cling to life

  • created reference approved 贪生/貪生 → 贪生怕死/貪生怕死 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    贪生 / 貪生 tān​shēng

    贪生怕死 / 貪生怕死 tān​shēng​pà​sǐ

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 贪生/貪生 · tān​shēng · to cling to life — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    贪生 / 貪生

    tān​shēng

    to cling to life

    to cling to life cravenly; to be so afraid of death that one is unwilling to sacrifice oneself

    贪, 生

    贪 (literal) → 贪/貪 · tān · greedy 生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · to live

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

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