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