僵尸 (殭屍)
jiāng shī
Pinyin

Definition

僵尸 (殭屍)
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jiāng shī
  1. gyonshi
  2. jiang shi
  3. Chinese vampire
  4. zombie

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

僵尸
jiāng shī
  1. 1 gyonshi
  2. 2 jiang shi
  3. 3 Chinese vampire
  4. 4 zombie
停尸
tíng shī
  1. 1 to keep the body of the deceased (until burial or cremation)
丧尸
sāng shī
  1. 1 zombie
尸体
shī tǐ
  1. 1 dead body
  2. 2 corpse
  3. 3 carcass
  4. 4 classifier: 具 jù
挺尸
tǐng shī
  1. 1 (lit.) to lie stiff like a corpse
  2. 2 (coll.) to sleep

Idioms (4)

借尸还魂
jiè shī huán hún
  1. 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise
掘墓鞭尸
jué mù biān shī
  1. 1 to exhume a body for public flogging (idiom)
行尸走肉
xíng shī zǒu ròu
  1. 1 walking corpse (idiom)
  2. 2 zombie
  3. 3 person who lives only on the material level
马革裹尸
mǎ gé guǒ shī
  1. 1 to be buried in a horse hide (idiom)
  2. 2 to give one's life on the battlefield

Sample Sentences

你也别不信，我小时候还有个广播节目，专门讲这些乡野传奇，大人小孩都爱听呢！有什么绿毛僵尸、飞天僵尸，一般的僵尸只能跳，飞天僵尸可是会飞的呢！
nǐ yě bié bùxìn ，wǒ xiǎo shíhou háiyǒu gè guǎngbō jiémù ，zhuānmén jiǎng zhèxiē xiāngyě chuánqí ，dàren xiǎohái dōu ài tīng ne ！yǒu shénme lǜmáojiāngshī 、fēi tiānjiāngshī ，yībān de jiāngshī zhǐnéng tiào ，fēi tiānjiāngshī kěshì huì fēi de ne ！
You shouldn't take things so lightly, when I was younger there was a radio show which focused on these kind of folk tales, adults and children both would listen to it, it talked about green haired zombies and flying zombies. Normal zombies can only jump, flying zombies can fly!
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