| 血液 | xuè yè | blood / (fig.) lifeblood |  |
| 鲜血 | xiān xuè | blood |  |
| 高血压 | gāo xuè yā | high blood pressure / hypertension |  |
| 热血 | rè xuè | hot blood / warm-blooded (animal) / endothermic (physiology) |  |
| 高压 | gāo yā | (physics) high pressure / (meteorology) high atmospheric pressure / high voltage / systolic blood pressure / high-handed / oppressive |  |
| 血腥 | xuè xīng | reeking of blood / bloody (events) |  |
| 流血 | liú xuè | to bleed / to shed blood |  |
| 心血 | xīn xuè | heart's blood / expenditure (for some project) / meticulous care |  |
| 血型 | xuè xíng | blood group / blood type |  |
| 血压 | xuè yā | blood pressure |  |
| 吐血 | tù xiě | to cough up blood / (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc) |  |
| 血统 | xuè tǒng | blood relationship / lineage / parentage |  |
| 血液循环 | xuè yè xún huán | blood circulation |  |
| 吸血 | xī xiě | to suck blood |  |
| 血脉 | xuè mài | blood vessels |  |
| 气血 | qì xuè | qi and blood (two basic bodily fluids of Chinese medicine) |  |
| 血糖 | xuè táng | blood sugar |  |
| 苦练 | kǔ liàn | to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears |  |
| 毛骨悚然 | máo gǔ sǒng rán | to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold |  |
| 血清 | xuè qīng | serum / blood serum |  |
| 沾满 | zhān mǎn | muddy / covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc) / daubed in |  |
| 血流 | xuè liú | blood flow |  |
| 补血 | bǔ xuè | to enrich the blood |  |
| 输血 | shū xuè | to transfuse blood / to give aid and support |  |
| 脉络 | mài luò | arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context |  |
| 骨肉 | gǔ ròu | blood relation / kin / one's flesh and blood |  |
| 血丝 | xuè sī | wisps of blood / visible veins / (of eyes) bloodshot |  |
| 活血 | huó xuè | to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine) |  |
| 献血 | xiàn xuè | to donate blood |  |
| 充血 | chōng xuè | hyperemia (increase in blood flow) / blood congestion |  |
| 挥洒 | huī sǎ | to sprinkle / to shed (tears, blood etc) / fig. free, unconstrained / to write in a free style |  |
| 造血 | zào xuè | to make blood (function of bone marrow) |  |
| 失血 | shī xuè | to lose blood / to hemorrhage / (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc) |  |
| 血族 | xuè zú | blood relations / one's own flesh and blood / kin |  |
| 血淋淋 | xuè lín lín | dripping with blood / bloody (tragedy) |  |
| 血浆 | xuè jiāng | blood plasma |  |
| 吸食 | xī shí | (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw |  |
| 白细胞 | bái xì bāo | white blood cell / leukocyte |  |
| 血泪 | xuè lèi | tears of blood (symbol of extreme suffering) / blood and tears |  |
| 横飞 | héng fēi | (of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air |  |
| 一针见血 | yī zhēn jiàn xiě | lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom) / fig. to hit the nail on the head |  |
| 降压 | jiàng yā | to reduce the pressure (of a fluid) / to lower one's blood pressure / to lower (or step down) the voltage |  |
| 血泊 | xuè pō | pool of blood |  |
| 血小板 | xuè xiǎo bǎn | blood platelet |  |
| 血气 | xuè qì | blood and vital breath / bloodline (i.e. parentage) / valor |  |
| 血脂 | xuè zhī | blood lipid |  |
| 血水 | xuè shuǐ | thin blood / watery blood |  |
| 红细胞 | hóng xì bāo | erythrocyte / red blood cell |  |
| 血缘关系 | xuè yuán guān xì | blood relationship / consanguinity |  |
| 血栓 | xuè shuān | blood clot / thrombus |  |
| 毛细血管 | máo xì xuè guǎn | capillary blood vessels |  |
| 头破血流 | tóu pò xuè liú | lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised |  |
| 血腥味 | xuè xīng wèi | smell of blood |  |
| 混血儿 | hùn xuè ér | person of mixed blood |  |
| 缺血 | quē xuè | (of an organ) to have insufficient blood supply / (of a blood bank) to run low on blood supplies |  |
| 造血干细胞 | zào xuè gàn xì bāo | blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow) |  |
| 供血 | gōng xuè | to donate blood |  |
| 呕心沥血 | ǒu xīn lì xuè | lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom) / to work one's heart out / blood, sweat and tears |  |
| 凝血 | níng xuè | blood clot |  |
| 血流成河 | xuè liú chéng hé | rivers of blood (idiom) / bloodbath |  |
| 抽血 | chōu xuè | to take blood / to draw blood (e.g. for a test) |  |
| 碧血 | bì xuè | blood shed in a just cause |  |
| 血雨 | xuè yǔ | rain of blood / heavy rain colored by loess sandstorm |  |
| 鲜血淋漓 | xiān xuè lín lí | to be drenched with blood / dripping blood |  |
| 血亲 | xuè qīn | kin / blood relation |  |
| 血液病 | xuè yè bìng | disease of the blood |  |
| 血债 | xuè zhài | debt of blood (after killing sb) |  |
| 血肉横飞 | xuè ròu héng fēi | flesh and blood flying (idiom) / carnage / people blown to pieces |  |
| 放血 | fàng xuè | to let blood (Chinese medicine) / to bleed / to stab sb (slang) |  |
| 白求恩 | Bái Qiú ēn | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning |  |
| 低血压 | dī xuè yā | low blood pressure |  |
| 瘀血 | yū xuè | clotted blood / extravasated blood (leaking into surrounding tissue) / thrombosis |  |
| 血流量 | xuè liú liàng | blood flow |  |
| 高血糖 | gāo xuè táng | hyperglycemia / abnormally high blood sugar level |  |
| 血块 | xuè kuài | blood clot |  |
| 血书 | xuè shū | letter written in one's own blood, expressing determination, hatred, last wishes etc |  |
| 血压计 | xuè yā jì | blood pressure meter / sphygmomanometer |  |
| 高脂血症 | gāo zhī xuè zhèng | high blood fat disease / hyperlipidemia / hypertriglyceridemia |  |
| 验血 | yàn xuè | to do a blood test / to have one's blood tested |  |
| 亲缘 | qīn yuán | blood relationship / genetic relationship / consanguinity |  |
| 血库 | xuè kù | blood bank |  |
| 便血 | biàn xiě | having blood in one's stool |  |
| 兵不血刃 | bīng bù xuè rèn | lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom) / fig. an effortless victory |  |
| 溶血 | róng xuè | hemolysis (breakdown of red blood cells leading to anemia) |  |
| 血细胞 | xuè xì bāo | blood cell |  |
| 捐血 | juān xuè | to donate blood |  |
| 白血球 | bái xuè qiú | white blood cell / leukocyte |  |
| 献血者 | xiàn xuè zhě | blood donor |  |
| 红血球 | hóng xuè qiú | erythrocyte / red blood cell |  |
| 血球 | xuè qiú | blood corpuscle / hemocyte |  |
| 血糖仪 | | blood glucose monitor |  |
| 补体 | bǔ tǐ | complement (in blood serum) |  |
| 舒张压 | shū zhāng yā | diastolic blood pressure |  |
| 纳新 | nà xīn | to accept the new / to take fresh (air) / fig. to accept new members (to reinvigorate the party) / new blood |  |
| 嫡亲 | dí qīn | closely related by blood |  |
| 血肉相连 | xuè ròu xiāng lián | one's own flesh and blood (idiom) / closely related |  |
| 血口喷人 | xuè kǒu pēn rén | to spit blood (idiom) / venomous slander / malicious attacks |  |
| 毛血旺 | máo xuè wàng | duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup |  |
| 歃血 | shà xuè | to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old) |  |
| 血肠 | xuè cháng | blood sausage / blutwurst / black pudding |  |