Chinese word dictionary

存亡攸关

cún wáng yōu guān · a make-or-break matter; a matter of life and death

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Word information

Simplified存亡攸关

Traditional存亡攸關

Pinyincún wáng yōu guān

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Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

存cún

to exist; to survive, to maintain; to keep, to store; to deposit

亡wáng

death, destruction; to lose; to perish

攸yōu

distant, far; adverbial prefix

关guān

frontier pass; to close, to shut; relation

How to learn 存亡攸关

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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没关系méiguānxi

it doesn't matter

关guān

mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve; surname Guan

关机guānjī

to turn off (a machine or device); to finish shooting a film

关系guānxì

relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]; variant of 關係|关系[guan1 xi5]

关心guānxīn

to be concerned about; to care about

关于guānyú

pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of