九死一生

/kʲɨːɕi iɕːo̞ː/

JAPONCA → TR

Tanım

•narrow escape from death

Etimoloji

Idiom borrowed from Middle Chinese 九死一生 (MC kjuwX sijX 'jit sraengH). Literally, “nine deaths, one life”, i.e. nine chances to die and just one to live. By surface analysis, 九(きゅう) (kyū, “nine”) + 死(し) (shi, “death”) + 一(いっ)生(しょう) (isshō, “lifetime, life”). Compare 十(じっ)死(し)一(いっ)生(しょう) (jisshi isshō, literally “ten deaths, one life”) and 万(ばん)死(し)一(いっ)生(しょう) (banshi isshō, literally “ten thousand…