"Cruel" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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残酷 cán kù cruel / cruelty
残忍 cán rěn cruel / mean / merciless / ruthless
凶狠 xiōng hěn cruel / vicious / fierce and malicious / vengeful
粗暴 cū bào rough / cruel
毒辣 dú là cruel / sinister / vicious
缺德 quē dé to be lacking in moral sense / to lack common basic respect for others / lacking in virtue / mischievous / wicked / cruel / mean
毒 dú poison / to poison / poisonous / malicious / cruel / fierce / narcotics
暴 bào sudden / violent / cruel / to show or expose / to injure
残 cán to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus
惨 cǎn miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy
荼 tú thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion
桀 jié (emperor of Xia dynasty) / cruel
虣 bào cruel / violent
伭 Xián (literary) cruel / ruthless / (literary) dark red / black
凶戾 xiōng lì cruel / tyrannical
心毒 xīn dú cruel / vicious
惨毒 cǎn dú cruel / vicious
惨酷 cǎn kù (literary) cruel / savage / merciless
血淋淋 xiě lín lín bloody / blood-soaked / gory / grisly / cruel / brutal / harsh / grim / bitter
吸血鬼 xī xuè guǐ leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
严刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously
狼心狗肺 láng xīn gǒu fèi lit. heart of wolf and lungs of dog (idiom) / cruel and unscrupulous
趮 zào easily provoked, hasty / fierce, cruel
豺狼虎豹 chái láng hǔ bào jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) / animals who are dangerous to man and cattle / fierce and cruel people
残酷无情 cán kù wú qíng cruel and unfeeling (idiom)
反酷刑折磨公约 fǎn kù xíng zhé mó gōng yuē UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
商纣王 Shāng Zhòu wáng King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant
括毒 kuò dú venomous / fig. cruel
桀王 Jié Wáng King Jie, the final ruler of the Xia dynasty (until c. 1600 BC), a notoriously cruel and immoral tyrant
酷刑折磨 kù xíng zhé mó torture and cruel treatment
伊斯坦布尔议定书 yī sī tǎn bù ěr yì dìng shū Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / Istanbul Protocol
防范小组委员会  Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
罗本岛指导方针  Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa / Robben Island Guidelines
虎毒不食子 hǔ dú bù shí zǐ a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its cubs (idiom) / even wild beasts look after their young
毒刑 dú xíng torture / cruel corporal punishment
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