身先朝露 Save Sign in to save words shēnxiānzhāolù ㄕㄣ ㄒㄧㄢ ㄓㄠ ㄌㄨˋ body will go with the morning dew (idiom) fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence Character by character 身(shēn)body 先(xiān)beforehand 朝(zhāo)morning 露(lù)surname Lu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0