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大難不死
  daai6 naan6 bat1 sei2   jyutping
  da4 nan4 bu4 si3   pinyin
have a close brush with death; barely escape from calamity
[literal] big trouble (but) won't die
[synonym] 死裡逃生

Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
大難不死 / 大难不死

This word has been viewed 1585 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 8th Dec 2006 20:47 and last edited on 22nd Feb 2015 03:55
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Characters in this word:

 daai6  -  big
 naan4 naan6  -  difficult; unpleasant; calamity; blame
 bat1  -  not; no; un-
 sei2  -  die; death; dead

1 compounds containing this word:

大難不死,必有後福 - good fortune awaits the survivor of a great disaster
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