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"death toll" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
死亡人数 死亡人數 sǐ wáng rén shù number of people killed / death toll
Chinese Pinyin Translation
哀悼 āi dào to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning syn
临死 臨死 lín sǐ facing death / at death's door
站点 站點 zhàn diǎn a place set up to serve a specific function (train station, bus stop, toll plaza, bike rental station, meteorological station etc) / (Internet) site (website, FTP site etc)
死囚 sǐ qiú prisoner that awaits execution / convict sentenced to death / someone on death row syn
路费 路費 lù fèi travel expenses / money for a voyage / toll syn
死于非命 死於非命 sǐ yú fēi mìng violent death (idiom) / to die in a disaster / an unnatural death syn
闸口 閘口 zhá kǒu open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
凌迟 凌遲 líng chí the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) syn
诈死 詐死 zhà sǐ to feign death / to fake death syn
死缓 死緩 sǐ huǎn deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal) syn
害死 hài sǐ to kill / to cause death / to do sb to death
人员伤亡 人員傷亡 rén yuán shāng wáng human toll
过路费 過路費 guò lù fèi toll (fee for using a road)
非命 fēi mìng unnatural death / violent death
做一天和尚撞一天钟 做一天和尚撞一天鐘 zuò yī tiān hé shang zhuàng yī tiān zhōng lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom) / fig. to do one's job mechanically / to hold a position passively syn
榷 què footbridge / toll, levy / monopoly syn
死亡 sǐ wáng to die / death syn
死刑 sǐ xíng death penalty / capital punishment syn
身后 身後 shēn hòu the time after one's death / a place behind sb / (fig.) one's social background syn
死因 sǐ yīn cause of death
生死 shēng sǐ life or death syn
死神 sǐ shén mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death syn
死人 sǐ rén dead person / (coll.) to die / (of a death) to happen syn
致死 zhì sǐ to cause death / to be lethal / to be deadly
要命 yào mìng to cause sb's death / extremely / terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance syn
处死 處死 chǔ sǐ an execution / to put sb to death syn
冻死 凍死 dòng sǐ to freeze to death / to die off in winter
吊死 diào sǐ death by hanging / to hang oneself syn
永别 永別 yǒng bié to part forever / eternal parting (i.e. death) syn
死活 sǐ huó life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me syn
半死 bàn sǐ 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 syn
行刑 xíng xíng to carry out a (death) sentence / execution syn
死讯 死訊 sǐ xùn news of sb's death syn
无常 無常 wú cháng variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die syn
坐以待毙 坐以待斃 zuò yǐ dài bì to sit and wait for death (idiom) / resigned to one's fate syn
寻死 尋死 xún sǐ to attempt suicide / to court death syn
惨遭 慘遭 cǎn zāo to suffer (defeat, death etc) syn
毙命 斃命 bì mìng to meet violent death / to get killed syn
生死攸关 生死攸關 shēng sǐ yōu guān matter of life and death syn
垂危 chuí wēi close to death / life-threatening (illness) syn
惨死 慘死 cǎn sǐ to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
三长两短 三長兩短 sān cháng liǎng duǎn unexpected misfortune / unexpected accident / sudden death syn
濒死 瀕死 bīn sǐ nearing death / on the point of demise / approaching extinction syn
擦肩而过 擦肩而過 cā jiān ér guò to brush past / to pass by (sb) / (fig.) to miss (an opportunity, a danger etc) / to have a brush (with death) syn
死罪 sǐ zuì capital offense / crime punishable by death / my deepest apologies syn
噩耗 è hào news of sb's death / sad news syn
死去活来 死去活來 sǐ qù huó lái to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life syn
苟延残喘 苟延殘喘 gǒu yán cán chuǎn to struggle on whilst at death's door (idiom) syn
假死 jiǎ sǐ suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead syn
一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo (idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved / death ends all one's troubles syn
死命 sǐ mìng doom / death / desperately syn
生死存亡 shēng sǐ cún wáng matter of life and death syn
死战 死戰 sǐ zhàn fight to the death / desperate struggle syn
千钧一发 千鈞一髮 qiān jūn yī fà a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom) / imminent peril / a matter of life or death syn
殊死 shū sǐ to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death syn
死守 sǐ shǒu to defend one's property to the death / to cling obstinately to old habits / die-hard syn
拼死拼活 pīn sǐ pīn huó one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs syn
瞑目 míng mù to close one's eyes / (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved grievances.) syn
死有余辜 死有餘辜 sǐ yǒu yú gū (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment syn
逼死 bī sǐ to hound sb to death
早逝 zǎo shì early demise / untimely death syn
杀气 殺氣 shā qì murderous spirit / aura of death / to vent one's anger syn
生离死别 生離死別 shēng lí sǐ bié separated in life and death / to part for ever
贪生怕死 貪生怕死 tān shēng pà sǐ greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom) / craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck syn
故去 gù qù to die / death syn
临危 臨危 lín wēi dying (from illness) / facing death / on one's deathbed syn
终年 終年 zhōng nián entire year / throughout the year / age at death syn
绝处逢生 絕處逢生 jué chǔ féng shēng to come back from death's door (idiom) / unexpected rescue from danger / fig. to recover from a seemingly impossible situation / to find a way out of a predicament syn
鱼死网破 魚死網破 yú sǐ wǎng pò lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom) syn
烈女 liè nǚ a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death syn
从一而终 從一而終 cóng yī ér zhōng faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying) syn
打死 dǎ sǐ to kill / to beat to death
死后 死後 sǐ hòu after death / posthumous
孙子 孫子 sūn zǐ Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1] syn
不行了 bù xíng le (coll.) on the point of death / dying
饿死 餓死 è sǐ to starve to death / to be very hungry
找死 zhǎo sǐ to court death / to take a big risk
掐死 qiā sǐ to throttle / to choke to death
烧死 燒死 shāo sǐ to burn to death
砍死 kǎn sǐ to hack to death / to kill with an ax
砸死 zá sǐ to crush to death
摔死 shuāi sǐ to fall to one's death / to kill by throwing to the ground
半条命 半條命 bàn tiáo mìng half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death
压死 壓死 yā sǐ to crush to death
烦死了 煩死了 fán sǐ le to annoy to death
弄死 nòng sǐ to kill / to put to death
刺死 cì sǐ to stab to death
宋庆龄 宋慶齡 sòng qìng líng Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1], influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
死生 sǐ shēng life or death / critical (event)
死期 sǐ qī time of death / limited to a fixed period of time / fixed term
执行死刑 執行死刑 zhí xíng sǐ xíng to carry out the death penalty
白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn
圆寂 圓寂 yuán jì death / to pass away (of Buddhist monks, nuns etc) syn
忌日 jì rì anniversary of a death / inauspicious day syn
五七 wǔ qī memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
生灭 生滅 shēng miè life and death
死亡笔记 死亡筆記 sǐ wáng bǐ jì Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大场鸫[Da4 chang3 Dong1] (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健[Xiao3 tian2 Jian4]
孙武 孫武 sūn wǔ Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
姜子牙 薑子牙 jiāng zǐ yá Jiang Ziya (c. 1100 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), partly mythical sage advisor to King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2] and purported author of “Six Secret Strategic Teachings” 六韜|六韬[Liu4 tao1], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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