苟延殘喘 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 苟延残喘 gǒuyáncánchuǎn ㄍㄡˇ ㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄢˊ ㄔㄨㄢˇ to struggle on whilst at death's door idiom Character by character 苟(gǒu)surname Gou 延(yán)surname Yan 殘(cán)destroy 喘(chuǎn)gasp A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0