拚生死

Chinese

		stake all; disregard; reject	to live and die; life-and-death
trad. (拚生死)		拚	生死
simp. ^#(拚生死)		拚	生死
alternative forms		拼生死

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bia⁴ sa¹ si³ / biann⁴ sann¹ si³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piàⁿ-siⁿ-sí / piàⁿ-seⁿ-sí

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bia⁴ sa¹ si³ [Phonetic: bia¹ sa⁵ si³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bia̍ⁿ-saⁿ-sî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pia⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ɬa⁵³³⁻¹¹ ɬi⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: biann⁴ sann¹ si³ [Phonetic: biann¹ na⁵ ni³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pĩã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(ɬ-)na⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)ni³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piàⁿ-siⁿ-sí
  - Tâi-lô: piànn-sinn-sí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pviarsvisie
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /piã¹¹⁻⁵³ sĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ si⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /piã²¹⁻⁵³ sĩ⁴⁴⁻²² si⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /piã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sĩ³³ si⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piàⁿ-seⁿ-sí
  - Tâi-lô: piànn-senn-sí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pviarsvesie
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /piã²¹⁻⁴¹ sẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ si⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /piã²¹⁻⁵³ sɛ̃⁴⁴⁻²² si⁵³/

Verb

拚生死

(Hokkien, Puxian Min) to fight to the death; to fight to the end

Synonyms

拼死 (pīnsǐ)
(literary) 冒死 (màosǐ)
(Hokkien) 存死, 存命 (cúnmìng), 丕死, 佩死

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “拼生死”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 40.