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血 [xuè]
名
1. Opaque liquid in the circulatory system of humans or animals, mostly red, primarily composed of plasma, blood cells, and platelets. It has a salty and fishy taste. Examples include blood type, blood lipids, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood traces, blood sweat, blood tears, blood wash, blood rain and wind, blood sea deep resentment.
2. Relationships naturally formed through reproduction among humans. Examples include blood system, blood relationship.
3. Metaphorically refers to strength and passion. Examples include blood nature, blood vigor.
血 [xuè]
名
1. Same as the original meaning, later used generally to refer to blood ([En.] blood).
引:
1. "Shuowen": Blood is the blood of sacrificed livestock.
2. "Poetry": Take its blood. Note: Blood refers to killing.
3. "Zhouli": Use blood to sacrifice the state and gods.
4. "Liji": Blood sacrifice is a solemn affair.
5. "Gongyangzhuan": Knock its nose and sacrifice with blood.
6. Han, Yang Xiong in "Fayan": The wild is weary of human flesh, the river valley flows with human blood.
例:
Dog blood spray head; anemia; heart-wrenching; blood sea relations (extremely important responsibility); blood reflected war robe (metaphor for intense battle); blood and flesh stumbling (dead bodies blocking the way, only able to walk slowly).
2. Refers to women's menstruation ([En.] menses).
引:
1. Zhang Jiebin in "Jingyue Quanshu": Now often seen women who give birth to children after seven or eight months, but stop at blood.
例:
Blood division (women’s menstrual blood); menstrual blood; excessive menstruation (menorrhagia).
3. Grieved tears ([En.] grieved tears).
引:
1. Tang, Gu Kuang in "Shang Zi": The old man mourns his beloved son, tears like flowing blood at dusk.
2. "Yijing": Riding a horse, tears like blood flow.
例:
Blood tears.
4. Blood vessels ([En.] blood vessel).
引:
1. Tang, Li Chaowei in "Liuyiji": Both qi and blood move.
血 [xuè]
动
1. To smear or paint with fresh blood ([En.] paint with blood).
引:
1. "Hanshu": Soldiers can do without blood blades and still retreat.
例:
Blood blade (bloodstained blade, referring to killing); blood clothes (blood-stained clothes); blood splatter (splashing blood); blood spot, blood trace (similar to blood mark).
2. To kill or injure ([En.] kill).
引:
1. Tang, Shen Guang in "Li Bai Jiulou Ji": Wielding a straight blade to spill blood on the evil ones.
例:
Blood wind and meat rain (referring to intense and brutal fighting or slaughter); blood field (battlefield); blood gully (linear bleeding wound).
3. To dye or smear ([En.] dye).
血 [xuè]
形
1. Refers to close relatives related by blood, also signifies bloodline or lineage ([En.] be related by blood).
引:
1. Han, Yang Xiong in "Taixuan": Close ties are severed, violating blood.
例:
Blood uncle (legitimate uncle); blood descendant (descendant); blood offspring (children of the same bloodline).
2. Metaphorically refers to sincerity ([En.] sincere).
例:
Bloodthirsty courage (referring to fleeting courage generated from emotions).
3. Metaphorically refers to the color red ([En.] red).
引:
1. "Xuxiake Youji": The azaleas are splendid, blood-red and captivating.
2. Tang, Li Chaowei in "Liuyiji": Suddenly a red dragon stretches over a thousand zhang, with thunder resembling a bloody tongue.
例:
Blood dark (dark red); blood flag (red flag); blood purple (purple-red).
4. See also xiě.
血 [xiě]
名
1. The colloquial pronunciation of blood (xuè), mostly used alone. Examples include "a little blood has flowed." It is also used in common terms such as chicken blood and blood clot.
血 [xiě]
名
1. The colloquial pronunciation of blood (xuè) ([En.] blood).
例:
Examples include chicken blood; blood clot; blood-soaked; blood-soaked, blood-soaked; blood alley (blood path cut out among people); blood porridge (bleeding a lot, like a porridge); blood overflowing (blood gushing); blood loyalty (loyalty; enthusiasm); bloody lessons; a bit of blood has flowed, it's no big deal.
2. See also xuè.
haematemesis / spitting blood
lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom) / to work one's heart out / blood, sweat and tears
hemoptysis / haemoptysis / hemoptoe / spit blood
hematemesis / haematemesis / spitting blood / spit out blood
fight a bloody battle / bloody battles / fight dauntlessly
high blood pressure / hypertension
lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory
to smear the lips with blood when taking an oath (idiom) / to swear a sacred oath
cerebral thrombosis / cerebral infaction
hyperemia (increase in blood flow) / blood congestion
debt of blood (after killing sb)
flesh and blood flying (idiom); carnage / people blown to pieces
to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)
to staunch (bleeding) / hemostatic (drug)
blood and sweat / sweat and toil
bloodstain / bloodstained
to be fired up (idiom) / to have one's blood racing
bloodbath / pool of blood