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借屍還魂
  ze3 si1 waan4 wan4   jyutping
  jie4 shi1 huan2 hun2   pinyin
[1] reincarnation (lit., "a returning soul borrows a corpse")
[2] to revive under a new disguise (as a criminal would in order to hide his identity)
[3] a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise

Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
借屍還魂 / 借尸还魂

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Characters in this word:

 ze3  -  borrow; lend
 si1  -  dead body
 waan4  -  return; still; even; again; also
 wan4  -  soul; spirit
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