- 中文拼音
- zhi4 zhi1 si3 di4 er2 hou4 sheng1
- 中文繁体
- 置之死地而後生
- 英文翻译
- place sb on field of death and he will fight to live (common saying based on Sunzi's Art of War 孫子兵法|孙子兵法); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger/fig. to find a way out of an impasse