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"funeral pyre" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
木柴堆 mù chái duī pile of firewood / funeral pyre
Chinese Pinyin Translation
白 bái white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera syn
葬礼 葬禮 zàng lǐ burial / funeral
大事 dà shì major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] syn
殡仪馆 殯儀館 bìn yí guǎn the undertaker's / funeral parlor
追悼会 追悼會 zhuī dào huì memorial service / funeral service
致辞 致辭 zhì cí to express in words or writing / to make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc) / to address (an audience) / same as 致詞|致词 syn
善后 善後 shàn hòu to deal with the aftermath (arising from an accident) / funeral arrangements / reparations
后事 後事 hòu shì future events / and what happened next... (in fiction) / funeral arrangements syn
葬送 zàng sòng to hold a funeral procession and burial / to give sb a final send-off / (fig.) to ruin (one's future prospects etc) syn
丧礼 喪禮 sāng lǐ funeral
丧葬 喪葬 sāng zàng funeral / burial syn
丧事 喪事 sāng shì funeral arrangements syn
殡葬 殯葬 bìn zàng funeral and interment syn
出殡 出殯 chū bìn to accompany a deceased person to his last resting place / to hold a funeral syn
送葬 sòng zàng to participate in funeral procession / to attend a burial syn
哭丧 哭喪 kū sāng to wail at a funeral / formal wailing while offering sacrifice to the departed syn
送终 送終 sòng zhōng to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member / to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
丧葬费 喪葬費 sāng zàng fèi funeral expenses
灵堂 靈堂 líng táng mourning hall / funeral hall
奔丧 奔喪 bēn sāng to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent syn
治丧 治喪 zhì sāng to organize and carry out a funeral syn
哀乐 哀樂 āi yuè funeral music / plaint / dirge
祭文 jì wén funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address syn
天葬 tiān zàng sky burial (Tibetan funeral practice)
主祭 zhǔ jì to perform the sacrificial rites at a funeral
挽联 挽聯 wǎn lián pair of parallel verses inscribed on streamers, used as funeral decoration
丧 喪 sāng mourning / funeral / (old) corpse syn
国葬 國葬 guó zàng state funeral syn
丧假 喪假 sāng jià funeral leave
殡 殯 bìn a funeral / to encoffin a corpse / to carry to burial
吹鼓手 chuī gǔ shǒu (old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster syn
赙 賻 fù to contribute to funeral expenses
輓 wǎn variant of 挽 / to draw (a cart) / an elegy (for use in funeral procession) / to turn (change direction)
赗 賵 fèng (literary) gift (of money etc) to a bereaved family / to contribute to funeral expenses
厚养薄葬 厚養薄葬 hòu yǎng bó zàng generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral
薄养厚葬 薄養厚葬 bó yǎng hòu zàng to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
送殡 送殯 sòng bìn to attend a funeral / to take part in a funeral procession syn
吃席 chī xí to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb)
出丧 出喪 chū sāng to hold a funeral procession
告别式 告別式 gào bié shì parting ceremony / funeral
哭丧棒 哭喪棒 kū sāng bàng mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
丧仪 喪儀 sāng yí funeral ceremony
丧棒 喪棒 sāng bàng funeral stick (held by the son as a sign of filial piety)
执绋 執紼 zhí fú to attend a funeral syn
帛金 bó jīn traditional money gift at a funeral
殡仪员 殯儀員 bìn yí yuán undertaker / funeral arranger
永诀式 永訣式 yǒng jué shì funeral
治丧从俭 治喪從儉 zhì sàng cóng jiǎn to be frugal in attending to funeral rites (idiom)
烧埋 燒埋 shāo mái to bury / funeral rites
发丧 發喪 fā sāng to hold a funeral
白事 bái shì funeral / to explain (literary) syn
葬仪 葬儀 zàng yí funeral / obsequies
葬式 zàng shì funeral
葬玉埋香 zàng yù mái xiāng lit. burying jade and interring incense (idiom) / funeral for a beautiful person
号丧 號喪 háo sang to weep / to howl as if at a funeral
谢孝 謝孝 xiè xiào to visit friends to thank them after a funeral
车头相 車頭相 chē tóu xiàng photo attached to the front of a hearse in a funeral procession
遗体告别式 遺體告別式 yí tǐ gào bié shì funeral
开吊 開弔 kāi diào to hold memorial service / to hold a funeral
凶丧 凶喪 xiōng sāng funeral arrangements
买路钱 買路錢 mǎi lù qián money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage / illegal toll / (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession
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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