| 弥留之际 |
mí liú zhī jì |
on one's deathbed / at the point of death |
| 弥 |
mí |
full / to fill / completely / more |
| 弥 |
mí |
brimming or overflowing |
| 弥留 |
mí liú |
seriously ill and about to die |
| 留 |
liú |
old variant of 留 |
| 留 |
liú |
to leave (a message etc) / to retain / to stay / to remain / to keep / to preserve |
| 留 |
liú |
old variant of 留 |
| 之 |
zhī |
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 之际 |
zhī jì |
during / at the time of |
| 际 |
jì |
border / edge / boundary / interval / between / inter- / to meet / time / occasion / to meet with (circumstances) |