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good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
to be buried with or next to dead person (of deceased's partner, or of funerary objects)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挽* | 挽* | *挽
to pull / to draw (a cart or a bow) / to roll up / to coil / to carry on the arm / to lament the dead / (fig.) to pull against / to recover
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *葬* | 葬* | *葬
to bury (the dead) / to inter
HSK 7-9
to execute by firing squad / to shoot dead / fig. to discard / to get rid of
HSK 7-9
remains (of a dead person)
HSK 7-9
to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挽* | 挽* | *挽
variant of / to draw (a cart) / to lament the dead
HSK 7-9
corpse; dead body
HSK 7-9
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
dead end / blind alley
false paper money burned as an offering to the dead
the Dead Sea
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
ghost / spirit (of the dead)
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin
dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俑* | 俑* | *俑
wooden figures buried with the dead
dead piece (in Chess) / stupid move / hopeless case
(dead) human remains
to kill / to shoot dead
the dead / the deceased
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奠* | 奠* | *奠
to fix / to settle / a libation to the dead
dead leaf; withered leaf
in the dead of night (idiom)
rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form
to bury (the dead)
casualties / dead and injured
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毙* | 毙* | *毙
to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow)
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
bones of the dead
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) / (tired) to death / (terrified) out of one's wits / (beaten) to within an inch of one's life / (knock) the daylights out of sb
to be so in pain as to not want to live / to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster
to shoot dead
dead end; impasse / end of the road; final days
(slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.)
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end
to put dead body in coffin
corpse; dead body
gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end
skull (of a dead body)
dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
in the dead of night (idiom)
(dead) human remains
(idiom) dead drunk; plastered; as drunk as a lord
a pottery figurine buried with the dead
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殓* | 殓* | *殓
to prepare a dead body for coffin
late at night / in the dead of night
dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离 or 屍首異處|尸首异处, decapitation is implied.)
(idiom) dead silent
false paper money burned as an offering to the dead
(of servants etc) to be buried alive with the deceased; (of utensils etc) to be buried with the dead
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment / all is quiet / a dead calm (at sea)
ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead
(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered
figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site)
skeleton of the dead
suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead
half dead / more dead than alive
family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned / destitute and homeless
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槁* | 槁* | *槁
dried up (wood) / dead tree
the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken / a dead loss (idiom)
dead drunk / completely drunk
the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *踣* | 踣* | *踣
(literary) to tumble; to fall down / (literary) to fall dead
all dead and no survivors
lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom) / fig. outdated / thing of the past / dead letter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *诔* | 诔* | *诔
to eulogize the dead / eulogy
dead center; the very middle
to fall dead
to lie down / to drop dead
sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline / at a dead end
(literary) skull (of a dead person)
the hidden and the visible; that which can be seen and that which cannot; darkness and light; night and day; wisdom and ignorance; evil and good; the living and the dead; men and ghosts
to be dead drunk
lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation) / to bring back the dead / once it starts, everything goes well
dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis / to die hard (idiom) / to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皽* | 皽* | *皽
(literary) dead skin cells on the surface of the skin / Taiwan pr. [zhan3]
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
lit. to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom) / fig. to try to revive what is obsolete or dead
to be dead / not to be, or cease to exist
go to hell! / drop dead!
middle of the night / the dead of night
the dead / the deceased
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
to weep before a coffin or a memorial to the dead
dead weight ton
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead)
(ball sports) dead ball
ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead)
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals

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