哀莫大于心死 哀莫大於心死 āi mò dà yú xīn sǐ nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart / nothing is more wretched than apathy 交心 jiāo xīn to open one's heart / to have a heart-to-heart conversation syn 圣心节 聖心節 shèng xīn jié Feast of the Sacred Heart 谈心 談心 tán xīn to have a heart-to-heart chat syn 满心 滿心 mǎn xīn one's whole heart / from the bottom of one's heart syn 心肠 心腸 xīn cháng heart / intention / one's inclination / state of mind / to have the heart for sth / mood syn 红心 紅心 hóng xīn heart ♥ (in card games) / red, heart-shaped symbol / bullseye syn 呕心沥血 嘔心瀝血 ǒu xīn lì xuè lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom) / to work one's heart out / blood, sweat and tears syn 沁人心脾 qìn rén xīn pí lit. to penetrate deeply into the heart (idiom) / fig. to gladden the heart / to be refreshing syn 促膝谈心 促膝談心 cù xī tán xīn (idiom) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk syn 刀子嘴巴，豆腐心 dāo zi zuǐ ba , dòu fu xīn lit. knife mouth but heart of bean curd / sharp tongue concealing a caring heart 爱莫大于心死 愛莫大於心死 ài mò dà yú xīn sǐ nothing more sad than a withered heart / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / (popular culture misquotation of 哀莫大於心死|哀莫大于心死, saying attributed to Confuciu 反对人口贩运蓝心运动 反對人口販運藍心運動 Blue Heart Campaign against Human Trafficking / Blue Heart Campaign 凉了半截 涼了半截 liáng le bàn jié felt a chill (in one's heart) / (one's heart) sank 速效救心丸 sù xiào jiù xīn wán fast-acting heart pills (a medication developed in China in 1982 to treat heart conditions including angina) 心脏病发作 心臟病發作 xīn zàng bìng fā zuò heart attack / to have a heart attack 老子 lǎo zǐ Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi syn 神圣 神聖 shén shèng divine / hallow / holy / sacred syn 华山 華山 huà shān Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 圣地 聖地 shèng dì holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest 峨眉山 é méi shān Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism 圣火 聖火 shèng huǒ sacred fire / (esp.) the Olympic flame 嵩山 sōng shān Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 衡山 héng shān Mt Heng in Hunan, southern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Hengshan county in Hengyang 衡陽|衡阳[Heng2 yang2], Hunan 五岳 五嶽 wǔ yuè Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan 神山 shén shān sacred mountain 恒山 恆山 héng shān Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Hengshan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西[Ji1 xi1], Heilongjiang 道德经 道德經 dào dé jīng the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism 经 經 jīng classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4] syn 东岳 東嶽 dōng yuè Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 须弥 須彌 xū mí Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues 普陀山 pǔ tuó shān Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara) 菩提树 菩提樹 pú tí shù peepul (Ficus religiosa) / bodhi tree / sacred fig syn 神圣不可侵犯 神聖不可侵犯 shén shèng bù kě qīn fàn sacred / inviolable 大昭寺 dà zhāo sì Jokhang, main Buddhist temple in Lhasa, a sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism 圣典 聖典 shèng diǎn sacred writing / canon 北岳 北嶽 běi yuè Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 西岳 西嶽 xī yuè Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 中岳 中嶽 zhōng yuè Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 圣 聖 shèng (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual / paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy / sacred syn 一言九鼎 yī yán jiǔ dǐng one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom) / words of enormous weight syn 鼎铛玉石 鼎鐺玉石 dǐng chēng yù shí lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom) / fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine 歃血为盟 歃血為盟 shà xuè wéi méng to smear the lips with blood when taking an oath (idiom) / to swear a sacred oath syn 卍 wàn swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism 五台山 五臺山 wǔ tái shān Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1], one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊[Wen2 shu1] 五大名山 wǔ dà míng shān Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan 克尔白 克爾白 kè ěr bái Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca 南岳 南嶽 nán yuè Nanyue district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市[Heng2 yang2 shi4], Hunan / Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 吠陀 fèi tuó Vedas (Hindu sacred writings or legends) 四大佛教名山 sì dà fó jiào míng shān Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, namely: Mt Wutai 五臺山|五台山 in Shanxi, Mt Emei 峨眉山 in Sichuan, Mt Jiuhua 九華山|九华山 in Anhui, Mt Potala 普陀山 in Zhejiang 定鼎 dìng dǐng lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great) / to fix the capital / to found a dynasty / used in advertising 岱宗 dài zōng another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls 御酒 yù jiǔ imperial wine / sacred wine 榊 shén (Japanese kokuji) sakaki (Cleyera japonica), evergreen tree used in Shinto to decorate sacred spaces 烏魯汝 wū lǔ rǔ Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site / also known as Ayers Rock 开漳圣王 開漳聖王 kāi zhāng shèng wáng Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou, posthumous title of Tang dynasty general Chen Yuanguang (657-711) 陳元光|陈元光[Chen2 Yuan2 guang1] 陈元光 陳元光 chén yuán guāng Chen Yuanguang (657-711), Tang dynasty general with posthumous title 開漳聖王|开漳圣王[Kai1 zhang1 sheng4 wang2], i.e. Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian 须弥山 須彌山 xū mí shān Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues 乌鲁汝 烏魯汝 wū lǔ rǔ Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site / also known as Ayers Rock 卐 wàn swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, later adopted by Nazi Germany 自然圣地 sacred natural site 神奇蘑菰 神奇蘑菇 magic mushroom / sacred mushroom 榊 xx (Japanese kokuji) sakaki (Cleyera japonica), evergreen tree used in Shinto to decorate sacred spaces 佛骨 fó gǔ Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic) 结界 結界 jié jiè (Buddhism) to designate the boundaries of a sacred place within which monks are to be trained / a place so designated / (fantasy fiction) force field / invisible barrier (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 結界 "kekkai") 如来佛 如來佛 rú lái fó Tathagata, one of the ten sacred names of Buddha 教案 jiào àn lesson plan / teaching plan / a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing) 公元 gōng yuán CE (Common Era) / Christian Era / AD (Anno Domini) syn 教会 教會 jiào huì Christian church 基督教 jī dū jiào Christianity / Christian syn 基督徒 jī dū tú Christian syn 西元 xī yuán (Tw) Christian era / Gregorian calendar / AD (Anno Domini) 万圣节 萬聖節 wàn shèng jié All Saints (Christian festival) 路西法 lù xī fǎ Lucifer (Satan's name before his fall in Jewish and Christian mythology) 亚伯 亞伯 yà bó Abe (short form for Abraham) / Abel, a figure of Jewish, Christian and Muslim mythologies 布道 bù dào to preach (the Christian gospel) syn 圣子 聖子 shèng zǐ Holy Son / Jesus Christ / God the Son (in the Christian Trinity) 该隐 該隱 gāi yǐn Cain (name) / Cain (biblical character), a figure of Judeo-Christian-Muslim mythology 多普勒 duō pǔ lè Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect 开恩 開恩 kāi ēn to give a favor (used of Christian God) syn 团契 團契 tuán qì Christian association / fellowship 佛龛 佛龕 fó kān niche for statue (esp. Buddhist, Christian etc) 青年会 青年會 qīng nián huì YMCA (international Christian youth movement, formed in 1844) 圣礼 聖禮 shèng lǐ Holy sacrament / Christian rite (esp. Protestant) / also called 聖事|圣事 by Catholics 西里尔 西里爾 xī lǐ ěr Cyril (name) / Saint Cyril, 9th century Christian missionary / Cyrillic 阿摩司书 阿摩司書 ā mó sī shū Book of Amos, one of the books of the Nevi'im and of the Christian Old Testament 基督教民主联盟 基督教民主聯盟 jī dū jiào mín zhǔ lián méng Christian Democratic Union (German political party) 基督教徒 jī dū jiào tú a Christian 路西弗 lù xī fú Lucifer (Satan's name before his fall in Jewish and Christian mythology) 安徒生 ān tú shēng Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) 基督教派 jī dū jiào pài Christian denomination 克里斯蒂安 kè lǐ sī dì ān Kristian or Christian (name) 燕京大学 燕京大學 yān jīng dà xué Yanjing or Yenching University, Christian university in Beijing founded in 1919 中原大学 中原大學 zhōng yuán dà xué Chung Yuan Christian University, in Taiwan 修院 xiū yuàn seminary (Christian college) 倪柝声 倪柝聲 ní tuò shēng Ni Tuosheng or Watchman Nee (1903-1972), influential Chinese Christian 克里斯汀·贝尔 克里斯汀·貝爾 KelisitingBeier Christian Bale (1974-), English actor 和散那 hé sǎn nà Hosanna (in Christian praise) 四旬斋 四旬齋 sì xún zhāi Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) 