1 to die

2 impassable

3 uncrossable

4 inflexible

5 rigid

6 extremely

7 damned

1 illness

2 classifier: 场 cháng

3 disease

4 to fall ill

5 defect

1 to court disaster

2 also pr. [zuō sǐ]

1 infectious disease

2 contagious disease

3 pestilence

1 to freeze to death

2 to die off in winter

1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)

1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)

2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal

3 to keep going while some hope is left

1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)

2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle

3 it's either him or me

1 to act recklessly (idiom)

1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)

2 there's more than one way to skin a cat