| 养生送死 |
yǎng shēng sòng sǐ |
to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom) |
| 养 |
yǎng |
to raise (animals) / to bring up (children) / to keep (pets) / to support / to give birth |
| 养生 |
yǎng shēng |
to maintain good health / to raise a child or animal / curing (of concrete etc) |
| 生 |
shēng |
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) |
| 送 |
sòng |
to send; to deliver; to transmit / to give (as a present) / to see (sb) off / to accompany; to go along with |
| 送死 |
sòng sǐ |
to throw away one's life |
| 死 |
sǐ |
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned |