坟墓 墳墓 fén mù grave / tomb syn 较量 較量 jiào liàng to pit oneself against sb / to compete with sb / contest / battle / to haggle / to quibble syn 墓穴 mù xué tomb / grave syn 牢笼 牢籠 láo lóng cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle syn 盗墓 盜墓 dào mù to rob a tomb 陵墓 líng mù tomb / mausoleum syn 火坑 huǒ kēng pit of fire / fig. living hell syn 古墓 gǔ mù old tomb (archaeology) 采石场 採石場 cǎi shí chǎng stone pit / quarry 沙坑 shā kēng sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf) 无底洞 無底洞 wú dǐ dòng bottomless pit 茅坑 máo kēng latrine pit / latrine syn 心口 xīn kǒu pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts syn 坑洞 kēng dòng hole / pit / pothole 泥坑 ní kēng mud pit / mire / morass syn 祖坟 祖墳 zǔ fén ancestral tomb syn 蝮蛇 fù shé Siberian pit viper (Gloydius halys) / pit viper 松柏 sōng bǎi pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb syn 墓葬 mù zàng (archeology) grave / tomb syn 墓道 mù dào path leading to a grave / tomb passage / aisle leading to the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb syn 矿车 礦車 kuàng chē miner's cart / pit truck 坟茔 墳塋 fén yíng grave / tomb / graveyard / cemetery / fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are buried) syn 井下 jǐng xià underground / in the pit (mining) 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) 深潭 shēn tán deep natural pond / deep pit / abyss 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) 矿场 礦場 kuàng chǎng a mine / pit 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 赛车女郎 賽車女郎 sài chē nǚ láng pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl 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 火塘 huǒ táng indoor fire pit 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 窝 窩 wō nest / pit or hollow on the human body / lair / den / place / to harbor or shelter / to hold in check / to bend / classifier for litters and broods syn 墓 mù grave / tomb / mausoleum syn 坟 墳 fén grave / tomb / CL:座[zuo4] / embankment / mound / ancient book syn 坎 埳 kǎn old variant of 坎[kan3] / pit / hole syn 穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默 陵 líng mound / tomb / hill / mountain syn 潭 tán deep pool / pond / pit (dialect) / depression 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 探井 tàn jǐng (mining) test pit / exploratory shaft / test well 硐 dòng variant of 洞[dong4] / cave / pit 白花蛇 bái huā shé long-nosed pit viper (agkistrodon acutus) syn 陷坑 xiàn kēng pitfall / pit as animal trap syn 炎帝陵 yán dì líng Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan 欲壑难填 慾壑難填 yù hè nán tián bottomless pit of desire (idiom) / insatiable greed / carnal cravings are never satisfied and are a main obstruction on the path to enlightenment syn 五步蛇 wǔ bù shé Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces) syn 凼 dàng pool / pit / ditch / cesspit 穸 xī tomb 圹 壙 kuàng tomb syn 腘 膕 guó knee pit / popliteal fossa (medicine) 坜 壢 lì hole, pit 避坑落井 bì kēng luò jǐng to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom) / out of the frying pan into the fire syn 封土 fēng tǔ to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb) 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) 俑坑 yǒng kēng pit with funerary figures / pit containing terracotta warriors 干坑式厕所 dry-pit latrine / dry pit 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 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 凹洞 āo dòng cavity / pit 窞 dàn pit / cave 阬 kēng pit / to defraud 渗坑 滲坑 shèn kēng sewage pit 溛 wā to form hollow / pit 埳 kǎn a pit, a hole, a snare, a danger / a crisis / a mortar 凼子 dàng zi pool / pit / ditch / cesspit 地炉 地爐 dì lú fire pit 坑木 kēng mù pit prop 心窝儿 心窩兒 xīn wō r one's breast / the pit of one's stomach syn 核儿 核兒 hú r pit (stone of a fruit) syn 梅核气 梅核氣 méi hé qì (TCM) plum-pit qi, a feeling of a lump in the throat (globus pharyngis) or of stagnant phlegm 沤凼 漚凼 òu dàng cesspool / compost pit 无底坑 無底坑 wú dǐ kēng the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible) / pitless (elevator) 狼井 láng jǐng wolf trap (trou de loup), medieval defensive trap consisting of a concealed pit with sharp spikes 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 颊窝 頰窩 jiá wō dimple / heat-sensing facial pit of a snake 