回光返照

迴光返照
huíguāngfǎnzhào
  1. (figurative) to experience a momentary spurt of activity or boom before its final demise
  2. (figurative) to experience terminal lucidity (before one's death)
  3. to experience a momentary spurt of activity or boom before its final demise
  4. to experience terminal lucidity (before one's death)

Wiktionary

Homographs

回光返照 huíguāngfǎnzhào
  1. final radiance of setting sun
  2. fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)

Entry Composition

=1 回 huí
  1. to circle
  2. to go back
  3. to turn around
  4. to answer
  5. to return
  6. to revolve
  7. Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
  8. time
  9. classifier for acts of a play
  10. section or chapter (of a classic book)
=1 回 huí
  1. to curve
  2. to return
  3. to revolve
=1 回 huí variant of 回 huí
=2 光 guāng
  1. bright; shiny
  2. only; merely
  3. used up; finished
  4. to leave (a part of the body) uncovered

classifier: 道
=2 光 guàng
  1. (historical dictionaries only) to color
  2. to color
3 返照 fǎnzhào
  1. (especially of the rays from the setting sun) to reflect back; to reflect light
  2. to reflect back; to reflect light