{"path":"/entry/60328","title":"杀身成仁 / 殺身成仁 (shā shēn chéng rén) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"杀身成仁 / 殺身成仁 (shā shēn chéng rén): to die a martyr · to be martyred. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":60328,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["杀身成仁"],"TRADITIONAL":["殺身成仁"]}},"phonetic":"shā shēn chéng rén","phoneticKey":"sha1 shen1 cheng2 ren2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to die a martyr","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to be martyred","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":46594,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["舍生取义"],"TRADITIONAL":["捨生取義"]}},"phonetic":"shě shēng qǔ yì","gloss":{"simplified":"to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Analects, Book 15 (《論語·衞靈公》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"子曰：「志士仁人，无求生以害仁，有杀身以成仁。」","traditional":"子曰：「志士仁人，無求生以害仁，有殺身以成仁。」"},"phonetic":"Zǐyuē: “Zhìshì rénrén, wú qiúshēng yǐ hài rén, yǒu shāshēn yǐ chéngrén.”","english":"The Master said, \"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.\"","ref":"The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}