| | 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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| | Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April) | HSK 6 |
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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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| | dead body / corpse / carcass / CL: 具 | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | remains (of a dead person) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to bury (the dead) / to inter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving | HSK 7-9 |
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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 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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| | variant of 挽 / to draw (a cart) / to lament the dead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | |
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| | dead end; impasse / end of the road; final days | |
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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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| | gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end | |
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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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| | dead tree | |
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| | dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster | |
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| | the Dead Sea | |
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| | clay sheep buried with the dead | |
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| | casualties / dead and injured | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (dead) human remains | |
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| | to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery | |
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| | dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous | |
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| | rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form | |
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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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| | family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned / destitute and homeless | |
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| | to die in childhood / war dead | |
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| | to kill / to shoot dead | |
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| | to bury (the dead) | |
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| | ghost / spirit (of the dead) | |
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| | wooden figures buried with the dead | |
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| | (idiom) dead end / road to ruin | |
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| | the dead / the deceased | |
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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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| | 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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| | to lie down / to drop dead | |
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| | (idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered | |
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| | bones of the dead | |
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| | skull (of a dead body) | |
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| | dead leaf; withered leaf | |
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| | in the dead of night (idiom) | |
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| | to fix / to settle / a libation to the dead | |
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| | to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death | |
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| | to shoot dead | |
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| | to be buried with the dead / to die for a cause | |
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| | a corpse / a dead body | |
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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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| | ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead | |
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| | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | |
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| | to put dead body in coffin | |
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| | dead drunk; plastered; as drunk as a lord | |
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| | rotten meat / bones of dead animal | |
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| | dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless | |
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| | dried up (wood) / dead tree | |
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| | in the dead of night (idiom) | |
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| | (dead) human remains | |
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| | a pottery figurine buried with the dead | |
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| | to prepare a dead body for coffin | |
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| | (literary) dead skin cells on the surface of the skin / Taiwan pr. [zhan3] | |
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| | corpse / carcass / dead body | |
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| | blind spot / dead center | |
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| | the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken / a dead loss (idiom) | |
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| | suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead | |
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| | half dead / more dead than alive | |
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| | the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales | |
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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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| | dead drunk / completely drunk | |
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| | dead center; the very middle | |
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| | to eulogize the dead / eulogy | |
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| | to fall dead | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | false paper money burned as an offering to the 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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| | lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom) / fig. outdated / thing of the past / dead letter | |
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| | dead piece (in Chess) / stupid move / hopeless case | |
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| | to be dead drunk | |
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| | dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality | |
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| | lit. although dead, as if still alive (idiom); still with us in spirit | |
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| | (literary) skull (of a dead person) | |
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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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| | the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears | |
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| | go to hell! / drop dead! | |
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| | lit. to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom) / fig. to try to revive what is obsolete or dead | |
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| | not a sound to be heard (idiom) / dead silent | |
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| | to be dead / not to be, or cease to exist | |
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| | sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline / at a dead end | |
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| | the dead / the deceased | |
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| | middle of the night / the dead of night | |
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| | to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years) | |
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| | ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead) | |
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| | Stop it! (Beijing and Internet slang) / Game over! / You're dead! | |
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| | to weep before a coffin or a memorial to the dead | |
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| | a death's-head; depiction of a dead person's skull | |
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