百足之蟲，死而不僵

Chinese
millipede; the rich and powerful
 
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
 
and; as well as; but (not); yet (not); (shows causal relation); (shows change of state); (shows contrast)
 not; no rigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)
trad. (百足之蟲，死而不僵) 百足之蟲 ， 死 而 不 僵
simp. (百足之虫，死而不僵) 百足之虫 ， 死 而 不 僵
Literally: “a centipede does not topple over even when dead”.

Pronunciation
  • Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bǎizúzhīchóng, sǐ'érbùjiāng
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˇ ㄗㄨˊ ㄓ ㄔㄨㄥˊ, ㄙˇ ㄦˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄤ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): baak3 zuk1 zi1 cung4, sei2 ji4 bat1 goeng1

Idiom

百足之蟲，死而不僵

  1. old institutions die hard
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