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生しょう死じ
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Meanings
Noun
1. life and death; life or death
2. samsara (cycle of death and rebirth)
3. death
Other readings
生せい死し生しょう死し
Kanji used
生life死death
Pitch accent
しょうじ
Used in vocabulary
生しょう死じ流る転てん
all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration
Noun
流る転てん生しょう死じ
all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration
Noun
生しょう死じ観かん
one's view of life and death; attitude toward living and dying
Noun
出しゅつ離り生しょう死じ
entering nirvana; attaining enlightenment; leaving samsara
Noun
Examples4
That fight seemed like a life-or-death struggle.
It is, as it were, a life and death problem.
He saved the drowning boy at the risk of his own life.
He hovered between life and death.