死里逃生

mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

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

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

to escape / to run away / to flee

to flee for one's life