贪生怕死 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 貪生怕死 tānshēngpàsǐ ㄊㄢ ㄕㄥ ㄆㄚˋ ㄙˇ greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom) craven and cowardly clinging abjectly to life only interested in saving one's neck Character by character 贪(tān)have a voracious desire for 生(shēng)grow 怕(pà)surname Pa 死(sǐ)die A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0