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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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *葬* | 葬* | *葬
to bury (the dead) / to inter
HSK 7-9
the netherworld; the world of the dead
(of a plant) to wither and die; withered and dead
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person)
HSK 7-9
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 dead / not to be, or cease to exist
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *具* | 具* | *具
tool / device / utensil / equipment / instrument / talent / ability / to possess / to have / to provide / to furnish / to state / classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
silent zone / blind spot / dead space
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
(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.)
to be so in pain as to not want to live / to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
to shoot dead
to be dead / to have passed away
dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous
to kill / to shoot dead
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
spirit of the dead; departed soul
(idiom) dead silent
to put dead body in coffin
in the dead of night (idiom)
corpse; dead body
HSK 7-9
the Dead Sea
a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom) / blind luck
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered
dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俑* | 俑* | *俑
wooden figures buried with the dead
corpse; dead body
gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end
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.)
to die / to drop dead
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
(lit.) when the rabbit is dead, the hunting dogs are cooked (idiom) / (fig.) to discard or eliminate someone once they are no longer useful
to execute by firing squad / to shoot dead / fig. to discard / to get rid of
HSK 7-9
to bury (the dead)
casualties / dead and injured
to be dead drunk
suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead
to die young / (Tw) (curse word) drop dead / go to hell / (literary) short life and long life
thin foil to make paper money for the dead
the dead / the deceased
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline / at a dead end
go to hell! / drop dead!
dead end / blind alley
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow)
figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site)
skeleton of the dead
half dead / more dead than alive
to weep before a coffin or a memorial to the dead
to fall dead
dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis / to die hard (idiom) / to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
(dead) human remains
late at night / in the dead of night
(ball sports) dead ball
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin
to be buried with or next to dead person (of deceased's partner, or of funerary objects)
HSK 7-9
middle of the night / the dead of night
bones of the dead
blind spot / dead spot
false paper money burned as an offering to the dead
dead tree
casualty (of an accident) / dead and wounded
(of servants etc) to be buried alive with the deceased; (of utensils etc) to be buried with the dead
lit. the dead returning to life / a miracle (idiom)
all dead and no survivors
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奠* | 奠* | *奠
to fix / to settle / a libation to the dead
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form
in the dead of night (idiom)
dead leaf; withered leaf
dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
to pay respects to the dead / to mark sb's passing
dead weight / weight capacity of a vehicle
dead weight ton
funerary objects (items buried together with the dead)
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment / All is quiet. / a dead calm (at sea)
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
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment / all is quiet / a dead calm (at sea)
drop dead! / go to hell! / fuck you! (Cantonese)
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
discharged / flat / dead (of batteries)
ghost / spirit (of the dead)
to bury the dead
remains (of a dead person)
HSK 7-9
(literary) late at night; in the dead of night
(mechanical engineering) dead point; dead center
family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned / destitute and homeless
a worship ceremony for the dead / to offer sacrifice (to ancestors) / a libation
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
a death's-head; depiction of a dead person's skull
(Chinese folk religion) Heibai Wuchang: two deities, one dressed in black and the other in white, responsible for escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld

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