通道 tōng dào (communications) channel / thoroughfare / passage syn 坟墓 墳墓 fén mù grave / tomb syn 墓穴 mù xué tomb / grave syn 写道 寫道 xiě dào to write (used before or after a quoted passage) syn 盗墓 盜墓 dào mù to rob a tomb 陵墓 líng mù tomb / mausoleum syn 篇章 piān zhāng chapter / section (of a written work) / passage of writing / (fig.) chapter (in the history of sth) syn 古墓 gǔ mù old tomb (archaeology) 时过境迁 時過境遷 shí guò jìng qiān things change with the passage of time (idiom) 段落 duàn luò phase / time interval / paragraph / (written) passage syn 通路 tōng lù thoroughfare / passage / pathway / channel syn 清道 qīng dào to clean the street / to clear the road (i.e. get rid of people for passage of royalty or VIP) syn 分管 fēn guǎn to be put in charge of / to be responsible for / branched passage 透射 tòu shè to transmit / transmission (of radiation through a medium) / passage 祖坟 祖墳 zǔ fén ancestral tomb syn 忽忽 hū hū fleeting (of quick passage time) / in a flash / distracted manner / vacantly / frustratedly syn 松柏 sōng bǎi pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb syn 墓葬 mù zàng (archeology) grave / tomb syn 花甲 huā jiǎ complete sexagenary cycle / a 60 year-old person / passage of time 坟茔 墳塋 fén yíng grave / tomb / graveyard / cemetery / fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are buried) syn 气道 氣道 qì dào flue / air duct / air passage / respiratory tract 清明节 清明節 qīng míng jié Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April) 地宫 地宮 dì gōng underground palace (as part of imperial tomb) 秦始皇陵 qín shǐ huáng líng the tomb of the first emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation) 骊山 驪山 lí shān Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor 陵寝 陵寢 líng qǐn tomb (of king or emperor) syn 墓志 墓誌 mù zhì inscribed stone tablet placed in a tomb / memorial inscription on such a tablet syn 石虎 shí hǔ leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits 阴宅 陰宅 yīn zhái (feng shui term) tomb 明孝陵 míng xiào líng Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], a World Heritage site 古墓葬 gǔ mù zàng ancient tomb 墓 mù grave / tomb / mausoleum syn 坟 墳 fén grave / tomb / CL:座[zuo4] / embankment / mound / ancient book syn 穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默 陵 líng mound / tomb / hill / mountain syn 寝 寢 qǐn (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop / to cease syn 暮鼓晨钟 暮鼓晨鐘 mù gǔ chén zhōng lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom) / fig. Buddhist monastic practice / the passage of time in a disciplined existence 炎帝陵 yán dì líng Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan 隧 suì tunnel / underground passage 穸 xī tomb 圹 壙 kuàng tomb syn 隘路 ài lù defile / narrow passage syn 墓坑 mù kēng tomb pit 岁月如流 歲月如流 suì yuè rú liú the passage of the years / the flow of time 珠流璧转 珠流璧轉 zhū liú bì zhuǎn lit. pearl flows, jade moves on (idiom) / fig. the passage of time / water under the bridge 东兔西乌 東兔西烏 dōng tù xī wū lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time 封土 fēng tǔ to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb) 假道伐虢 jiǎ dào fá guó to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo / to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom) 峒室 dòng shì underground mine storage room / mine passage 窦道 竇道 dòu dào sinus (anatomy) / subterranean passage 圣经段落 聖經段落 shèng jīng duàn luò Bible passage 车行通道 車行通道 chē xíng tōng dào traffic passage 通行无阻 通行無阻 tōng xíng wú zǔ unobstructed passage / to go through unhindered syn 重文 chóng wén repetitious passage / multiple variants of Chinese characters 无害通过权 無害通過權 wú hài tòng guò quán right of innocent passage 自由通过安排 自由通過安排 pass-through arrangements / free passage 通过点 通過點 tòng guò diǎn passage point 海嵴山口 海脊山口 gap / passage 通过权 通過權 right of passage 经过胎盘 經過胎盤 placental passage 通道辐射监测器 通道輻射監測器 radiation passage monitor 安全通行保证 安全通行保證 safe-passage guarantee 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 暗桩 暗樁 àn zhuāng submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats / (fig.) informer / spy 暗道 àn dào secret passage / secret tunnel 一夫当关，万夫莫开 一夫當關，萬夫莫開 yī fū - dāng guān , wàn fū - mò kāi (idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand 堵截 dǔ jié to intercept / to block the passage of / to interdict syn 密道 mì dào secret passage / hidden tunnel 堎 líng mound / tomb 古墓丽影 古墓麗影 gǔ mù lì yǐng Tomb Raider (computer game) 无名战士墓 無名戰士墓 wú míng zhàn shì mù Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 介之推 jiè zhī tuī Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1], in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明[Qing1 ming2] (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated 千鸟渊国家公墓 千鳥淵國家公墓 qiān niǎo yuān guó jiā gōng mù Chidori ga fuchi, national war cemetery in Tokyo / also called Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 墓主 mù zhǔ occupant of tomb / person buried 墓坑夯土层 墓坑夯土層 mù kēng hāng tǔ céng layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology) 坟丘 墳丘 fén qiū a tomb syn 坟山 墳山 fén shān hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb syn 故墓 gù mù old tomb 松赞干布陵 松贊干布陵 sōng zàn gàn bù líng the tomb of Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo in Lhoka prefecture 无名烈士墓 無名烈士墓 wú míng liè shì mù tomb of the unknown soldier 祠墓 cí mù memorial hall and tomb 秦陵 qín líng the tomb of the First Emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation) 窀穸 zhūn xī to bury (in a tomb) syn 谒陵之旅 謁陵之旅 yè líng zhī lǚ visit to ancestral tomb 邙山行 máng shān xíng a form of Yuefu 樂府|乐府 mourning song or elegy / lit. to visit a tomb on Mt Mang 坆 fén variant of 墳|坟[fen2] / grave / tomb 平坟 平墳 píng fén to remove graves / tomb removal 参谒 參謁 cān yè to visit / to pay one's respects to (a revered figure etc) / to pay homage (at a tomb etc) syn 祖茔 祖塋 zǔ yíng ancestral tomb syn 