yīng nián zǎo shì

英年早逝 (yīng nián zǎo shì) is a Chinese word meaning “to die an untimely death (idiom); to be cut off in one's prime”.

Meanings

  1. 1to die an untimely death (idiom)
  2. 2to be cut off in one's prime

Characters in 英年早逝

英yīng · hero年nián · year早zǎo · early逝shì · (of flowing water or time) to pass by

Related words

年year年grain年surname Nian早early早上early morning年轻young英雄hero英国United Kingdom (UK); Britain英里mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)去年last year今年this year年代a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)

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