| 吹了 | chuī le | failed / busted / to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company / to have chilled (of a relationship) |  |
| 冤魂 | yuān hún | ghost of one who died unjustly / departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances |  |
| 彭德怀 | Péng Dé huái | Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
| 贺龙 | Hè Lóng | He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
| 抚恤 | fǔ xù | (of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury | |
| 张华 | Zhāng Huà | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
| 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 | |
| 周作人 | Zhōu Zuò rén | Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution | |
| 邓世昌 | Dèng Shì chāng | Deng Shichang (1849-1894), Qing dynasty naval specialist, founded naval dockyards and two naval colleges, died heroically in action against the Japanese | |
| 郭小川 | Guō Xiǎo chuān | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution | |
| 哀荣 | āi róng | (literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died / posthumous recognition | |
| 山颓木坏 | shān tuí mù huài | lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined / a great sage has died (idiom) | |
| 招魂 | zhāo hún | to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill / (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc) | |
| 吊死鬼 | diào sǐ guǐ | ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game) | |
| 邹容 | Zōu Róng | Zou Rong (1885-1905), a martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, died in jail in 1905 | |
| 五人墓碑记 | wǔ rén mù bēi jì | Five Men’s Tombstone Inscription, an essay by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[Zhang1 Pu3] commemorating five martyrs who died resisting the tyranny of Wei Zhongxian 魏忠賢|魏忠贤[Wei4 Zhong1xian2] during the late Ming dynasty | |
| 宿草 | sù cǎo | grass that has grown on a grave since last year / (fig.) grave / to have died long ago / fodder provided to animals for the night | |
| 拉狄克 | Lā dí kè | Karl Berngardovich Radek (1885-1939), Bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, died in prison during Stalin's purges | |
| 斯维尔德洛夫 | Sī wéi ěr dé luò fū | Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza | |
| 正仓院 | Zhēng cāng yuàn | Shōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts bequeathed to the Tōdai-ji temple by the Japanese emperor Shōmu, who died in 756 | |
| 王希孟 | Wáng Xī mèng | Wang Ximeng (c. 1096-c. 1119), Song artist, probably teenage prodigy who died young, painter of Thousand Miles of Landscape 千里江山 | |
| 邓拓 | Dèng Tuò | Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨 | |
| 虽死犹荣 | suī sǐ yóu róng | lit. although dead, also honored / died a glorious death | |
| 非作战受伤致死 | | died of non-battle wound | |
| 陈娇 | Chén Jiāo | Chen Jiao, first wife of emperor 漢武帝|汉武帝[Han4 Wu3 di4], died c. 110 BC | |
| 杞妇 | Qǐ fù | the wife of 杞梁[Qi3 Liang2], a senior official of the state of Qi 杞[Qi3] who died on a military expedition / (fig.) a widow | |
| 杀君马者道旁儿 | shā jūn mǎ zhě dào páng ér | lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion) / fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on | |
| 蛋炒饭节 | Dàn chǎo fàn jié | Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.) | |
| 张华 | Zhāng Huá | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
