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Find a way out of an impasse, fight desperately when confronting mortal danger
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Chinese text: 置之死地而後生

Chinese pinyin:
Zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng

Pinyin pronunciation:

The meanings in Chinese:

Find a way out of an impasse.

fight desperately when confronting mortal danger

place somebody on field of death and he will fight to live

(based on Sunzi's Art of War -
deploy troops in such a way as to leave no room
for maneuver or route for escape so that the soldiers
will fight for their dear lives out of desperation
and eventually win the battle)

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combination of characters:

place at

pronunciation:
zhi~4


this, that

pronunciation:
zhi~1


death

pronunciation:
si~3


ground

pronunciation:
di~4


and then

pronunciation:
er~2


afterwards

pronunciation:
hou~4


live

pronunciation:
sheng~1

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related keywords:
fight
desperate
battle
survive
win
eventually
Art of War
place
field
find
when
confront

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Chinese Proverbs Collection


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