死而不僵

dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis / to die hard (idiom) / to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned

and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast)

rigid / deadlock / stiff (corpse)

variant of 僵[jiang1]

a centipede dies but never falls down / old institutions die hard