借命

Chinese

		to lend; to borrow; excuse to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of	life; fate
simp. and trad. (借命)		借	命

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jièmìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze³ ming⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jièmìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jièmìng
    • Wade–Giles: chieh⁴-ming⁴
    • Yale: jyè-mìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiehminq
    • Palladius: цземин (czemin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ miŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ze³ ming⁶
    • Yale: je mihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze³ ming⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé³ ming⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³³ mɪŋ²²/

Verb

借命

1. (literary) to choose to live on in disgrace instead of dying honorably; to drag out an ignoble existence

Synonyms

• 偷生 (tōushēng)