One's breathing is barely perceptible.(qì xī yān yān)

One's breathing is barely perceptible.

Dying, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ì x ī y ǎ NY ǎ n, which is used to describe the appearance of weak breathing and about to die; it also refers to the decline of things and about to die. It comes from Li Mi's Chen Qing Biao of Jin Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Li Mi's Chen Qing Biao in the Jin Dynasty: "but Liu is dying, his life is in danger, and he never worries about it."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; predicate, complement; derogatory. In Lu Xun's letters to Zhang tingqian: "as far as I can see, those who cherish being called soldiers are now deliberately dangerous, or dying, and even their manners and words are very vulgar and ridiculous." "She is dying at the foot of the city," Rou Shi wrote in "no one has heard her cry." Shortly after the new factory director took office, he carried out drastic reform, and the dying factory soon resumed normal production. By the next morning, huiniang was on the verge of death.

Chinese PinYin : qì xī yān yān