见鬼 見鬼 jiàn guǐ absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it! syn 地狱 地獄 dì yù hell / infernal / underworld / (Buddhism) Naraka syn 眩晕 眩暈 xuàn yùn vertigo / dizziness / fainting / feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke) / Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1] syn 黄泉 黃泉 huáng quán the Yellow Springs / the underworld of Chinese mythology / the equivalent of Hades or Hell syn 鬼门关 鬼門關 guǐ mén guān the gates of hell syn 火坑 huǒ kēng pit of fire / fig. living hell syn 阎王 閻王 yán wáng same as 閻羅王|阎罗王 / Yama, King of Hell / translation of Sanskrit: Yama Raja syn 沉浮 chén fú lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes syn 冥府 míng fǔ underworld / hell syn 浮云 浮雲 fú yún floating clouds / fleeting / transient 抑扬 抑揚 yì yáng modulation (rising and falling pitch) / intonation / a cadence / to rise and fall (of a body floating in water) syn 飘摇 飄搖 piāo yáo floating in the wind / swaying / tottering / unstable syn 阎罗王 閻羅王 yán luó wáng (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell syn 去死 qù sǐ go to hell! / drop dead! 幽冥 yōu míng dark / hell / netherworld / hades 流动人口 流動人口 liú dòng rén kǒu transient population / floating population 冥王 míng wáng the king of hell 游资 遊資 yóu zī floating capital / idle fund / hot money 死心塌地 sǐ xīn tā dì to be hell-bent on / dead set on sth / unswerving syn 阎罗 閻羅 yán luó (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell syn 浮点 浮點 fú diǎn (computing) floating point 浮动汇率 floating exchange rate / flexible exchange rate 浮点数 浮點數 fú diǎn shù (computing) floating-point number / float 活受罪 huó shòu zuì (coll.) to go through sheer hell 阴司 陰司 yīn sī hell / nether world 滥觞 濫觴 làn shāng lit. floating wine goblets on a stream / the origin (of some phenomenon) syn 浮 fú to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus syn 人间地狱 人間地獄 rén jiān dì yù hell on earth (idiom) / suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time syn 撒赖 撒賴 sā lài to make a scene / to raise hell syn 阿鼻地狱 阿鼻地獄 ā bí dì yù (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells 荇 xìng yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) 阎王爷 閻王爺 yán wáng yé (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell syn 阴曹 陰曹 yīn cáo hell / the inferno syn 飖 颻 yáo floating in the air 颻 yáo floating in the air 浮云朝露 浮雲朝露 fú yún zhāo lù floating clouds, morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral nature of human existence 琴剑飘零 琴劍飄零 qín jiàn piāo líng floating between zither and sword (idiom) / fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position 破罐破摔 pò guàn pò shuāi lit. to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom) / fig. to give up altogether after a setback / to throw one's hands up in frustration and let it all go to hell syn 阿鼻 ā bí Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells / fig. hell / hell on earth 渢 féng buoyant / floating 浮点运算 浮點運算 fú diǎn yùn suàn floating point operation 自由漂移的状态 自由漂移的狀態 zì yóu piāo yí de zhuàng tài free-floating state 仆街 pū jiē drop dead! / go to hell! / fuck you! (Cantonese) 地府 dì fǔ hell / the nether world / Hades 大祸临头 大禍臨頭 dà huò lín tóu facing imminent catastrophe / calamity looms / all hell will break loose 森罗殿 森羅殿 sēn luó diàn the Palace of the King of Hell 閻王|阎王[Yan2wang5] 沈复 沈復 shěn fù Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six Records of a Floating Life 浮生六記|浮生六记[Fu2 Sheng1 Liu4 Ji4] 浮生六记 浮生六記 fú shēng liù jì Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复[Shen3 Fu4], published 1808 漂雷 piāo léi floating mine 无底坑 無底坑 wú dǐ kēng the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible) / pitless (elevator) 无党派投票人 無黨派投票人 wú dǎng pài tóu piào rén floating voter / non-partisan voter 猖猖狂狂 chāng chāng kuáng kuáng wild / hurried and confused / hell-for-leather 荇菜 xìng cài yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) 虚飘飘 虛飄飄 xū piāo piāo light and airy / floating syn 赴阴曹 赴陰曹 fù yīn cáo to enter hell 跳出火坑 tiào chū huǒ kēng lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom) / to escape from a living hell / to free oneself from a life of torture 阎君 閻君 yán jūn (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell 阎老 閻老 yán lǎo (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell 阎魔 閻魔 yán mó (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell 云霭 雲靄 yún ǎi floating clouds 青荇 qīng xìng waterlily / floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) 飐飐 颭颭 zhǎn zhǎn seems as if floating 飘尘 飄塵 piāo chén floating dust / atmospheric particles 浮动利率票据 浮動利率票據 fú dòng lì lǜ piào jù floating-rate note 浮式生产、储存、卸载设施 浮式生產、儲存、卸載設施 floating production, storage and offloading facility 浮桥飘浮部 fú qiáo piāo fú bù interior section / centre section / floating section / river pontoon unit 漂浮水稻 floating rice 浮式储存和卸载装置 浮式儲存和卸載裝置 floating storage and offloading units 支援舰 支援艦 zhī yuán jiàn support ship / floating base 浮动基地 浮動基地 support ship / floating base 浮式储存和再气化装置 浮式儲存和再氣化裝置 floating storage and regasification unit 浮息票据 浮息票據 floating-rate note 每秒浮点运算次数，浮点运算率 每秒浮點運算次數，浮點運算率 flops / Floating Point Operations Per Second 阎王好见，小鬼难当 閻王好見，小鬼難當 yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom) 搞毛 gǎo máo (dialect) what are you doing? / what the hell? 靠腰 kào yāo (lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese 哭枵, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-iau]) / (Tw) (slang) to whine / shut the hell up! / fuck! / damn! 靠北 kào běi (Tw) (slang) to rattle on / to carp / stop whining! / shut the hell up! / fuck! / damn! (from Taiwanese 哭爸, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-pē], "to cry over one's dad's death") 浮点型 浮點型 fú diǎn xíng (computing) floating-point / float 死要面子活受罪 sǐ yào miàn zi huó shòu zuì to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom) 太阳从西边出来 太陽從西邊出來 tài yáng cóng xī biān chū lái lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly 三小 sān xiǎo (Tw) (vulgar) what the hell? (from Taiwanese 啥潲, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-siâ], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么[shen2me5]) 浮尘 浮塵 fú chén dust (floating in the air or settled on a surface) / large amount of airborne sand and dust, such as during a sandstorm syn 夭寿 夭壽 yāo shòu to die young / (Tw) (curse word) drop dead / go to hell / (literary) short life and long life 摆烂 擺爛 bǎi làn (neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed) / to let it all go to hell / (sports) to tank 活见鬼 活見鬼 huó jiàn guǐ what the hell / preposterous syn 悬浮窗 懸浮窗 xuán fú chuāng (computing) floating window 欲仙欲死 yù xiān - yù sǐ (idiom) to experience sheer ecstasy (or, when used ironically, sheer hell) 浮动窗口 浮動窗口 fú dòng chuāng kǒu (computing) floating window 浮窗 fú chuāng (computing) floating window 沧海一粟 滄海一粟 cāng hǎi - yī sù lit. one grain floating on the ocean (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean syn 破罐破摔 pò guàn - pò shuāi lit. to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom) / fig. to give up altogether after a setback / to throw one's hands up in frustration and let it all go to hell syn 阎王 閻王 yán wang (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell / (fig.) cruel and tyrannical person syn 