セイシ
Meanings
Noun
1. life and death; life or death
The next ten-odd minutes will decide whether I live or die.
Pitch accent
セ
イシ
Composed of
life; living
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
between life and death
matter of life and death
one's view of life and death; attitude toward living and dying
Examples (5 in total)
But this is a life-or-death match!
It's important business, a matter of life and death.
That fight seemed like a life-or-death struggle.
The next ten-odd minutes will decide whether I live or die.
He saved the drowning boy at the risk of his own life.