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"funeral rites" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
烧埋 燒埋 shāo mái to bury / funeral rites
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
礼法 禮法 lǐ fǎ etiquette / ceremonial rites
哀乐 哀樂 āi yuè funeral music / plaint / dirge
祭文 jì wén funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address syn
六经 六經 liù jīng Six Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], Book of History 尚書|尚书[Shang4 shu1], Book of Rites 儀禮|仪礼[Yi2 li3], the lost Book of Music 樂經|乐经[Yue4 jing1], Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1] syn
礼部 禮部 lǐ bù Ministry of (Confucian) Rites (in imperial China)
礼记 禮記 lǐ jì Classic of Rites
礼乐 禮樂 lǐ yuè (Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)
拜祭 bài jì to worship / to observe religious rites / to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc)
周礼 周禮 zhōu lǐ the Rites of Zhou (in Confucianism)
五经 五經 wǔ jīng the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1], the Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1]
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
六艺 六藝 liù yì the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮|礼[li3] (禮儀|礼仪[li3 yi2]), music 樂|乐[yue3] (音樂|音乐[yin1 yue4]), archery 射[she4] (射箭[she4 jian4]), charioteering 御[yu4] (駕車|驾车[jia4 che1]), calligraphy or literacy 書|书[shu1] (識字|识字[shi2 zi4]), mathematics or reckoning 數|数[shu4] (計算|计算[ji4 suan4]) / another name for the Six Classics 六經|六经[Liu4 jing1]
礼制 禮制 lǐ zhì etiquette / system of rites
仪 儀 yí apparatus / rites / appearance / present / ceremony syn
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
十三经 十三經 shí sān jīng the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], Book of History 尚書|尚书[Shang4 shu1], Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼[Zhou1 li3], Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼[Yi2 li3], Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4], Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传[Gong1 yang2 Zhuan4], Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传[Gu3 liang2 Zhuan4], The Analects 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], Erya 爾雅|尔雅[Er3 ya3], Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经[Xiao4 jing1], Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] syn
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
克己复礼 克己復禮 kè jǐ fù lǐ restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects) / to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
学然后知不足 學然後知不足 xué rán hòu zhī bù zú to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4])
慎终追远 慎終追遠 shèn zhōng zhuī yuǎn to pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites
仪礼 儀禮 yí lǐ Rites and Ceremonies, part of the Confucian Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]
治丧从俭 治喪從儉 zhì sàng cóng jiǎn to be frugal in attending to funeral rites (idiom)
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)
礼崩乐坏 禮崩樂壞 lǐ bēng yuè huài rites and music are in ruins (idiom) / fig. society in total disarray / cf. 禮樂|礼乐[li3 yue4]
礼经 禮經 lǐ jīng Classic of Rites (same as 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4])
礼部尚书 禮部尚書 lǐ bù shàng shū Director of Board of Rites (Confucian)
诗礼 詩禮 shī lǐ the classics a Confucian scholar must read (such as The Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1jing1] and The Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3ji4])
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
木柴堆 mù chái duī pile of firewood / funeral pyre
殡仪员 殯儀員 bìn yí yuán undertaker / funeral arranger
永诀式 永訣式 yǒng jué shì funeral
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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