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死亡	sǐ wáng	to die / death
伤亡	shāng wáng	casualties / injuries and deaths
孙子	Sūn zǐ	Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书
早逝	zǎo shì	early demise / untimely death
夏黄公	Xià Huáng gōng	Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黄石公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author of “Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书
崩	bēng	to collapse / to fall into ruins / death of king or emperor / demise
诈死	zhà sǐ	to feign death / to fake death
不是鱼死就是网破	bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò	lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
不免一死	bù miǎn yī sǐ	cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal
冒死	mào sǐ	to brave death
半条命	bàn tiáo mìng	half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death
死讯	sǐ xùn	news of sb's death
三长两短	sān cháng liǎng duǎn	unexpected misfortune / unexpected accident / sudden death
大跃进	Dà yuè jìn	Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies
一了百了	yī liǎo bǎi liǎo	(idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved; death ends all one's troubles
宋庆龄	Sòng Qìng líng	Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
生死	shēng sǐ	life or death
砍死	kǎn sǐ	to hack to death / to kill with an ax
英年早逝	yīng nián zǎo shì	to die an untimely death (idiom) / to be cut off in one's prime
要命	yào mìng	to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance