棺材里伸出手来，死要钱棺材里伸出手來，死要錢棺材里伸出手來，死要錢

a hand reaching out of the coffin: dead set on money

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Mocks a person who is obsessed with money and grabs it to the very end. Critical.
Wordplay: 死 (sǐ) means both "dead" and "stubbornly, desperately", so it reads as both "dead, wanting money" and "desperately wanting money".

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Simplified: 棺材里伸出手来，死要钱
Traditional (Taiwan): 棺材里伸出手來，死要錢
Pinyin: guāncai lǐ shēnchū shǒu lái, sǐ yàoqián
Bopomofo: ㄍㄨㄢ ˙ㄘㄞㄌㄧˇ ㄕㄣㄔㄨㄕㄡˇ ㄌㄞˊ，ㄙˇ ㄧㄠˋ ㄑㄧㄢˊ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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