| 受害 | shòu hài | to suffer damage, injury etc / damaged / injured / killed / robbed |   |
| 蒙难 | méng nàn | to meet with disaster / killed / in the clutches of the enemy / to fall foul of / in danger | |
| 遇难 | yù nàn | to perish / to be killed | |
| 死亡人数 | sǐ wáng rén shù | number of people killed / death toll | |
| 蚩尤 | Chī Yóu | Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] | |
| 毙命 | bì mìng | to meet violent death / to get killed | |
| 送命 | sòng mìng | to lose one's life / to get killed | |
| 就义 | jiù yì | to be killed for a righteous cause / to die a martyr | |
| 罹难 | lí nàn | to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed | |
| 博古 | Bó Gǔ | Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash | |
| 血口 | xuè kǒu | bloody mouth (from devouring freshly killed prey) | |
| 项英 | Xiàng Yīng | Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍|新四军[Xin1 si4 jun1], killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[Wan3 nan2 Shi4 bian4] | |
| 杀身之祸 | shā shēn zhī huò | (idiom) getting killed | |
| 波洛涅斯 | Bō luò niè sī | Polonius (name) / Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet | |
| 不免一死 | bù miǎn yī sǐ | cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal | |
| 阵亡者 | zhèn wáng zhě | people killed in battle | |
| 董卓 | Dǒng Zhuó | Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü / Bu 呂布|吕布 | |
| 玄武门之变 | Xuán wǔ mén zhī biàn | Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 / killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗 | |
| 俄底浦斯 | E2 dǐ pǔ sī | Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother | |
| 克林德 | Kè lín dé | Clemens von Ketteler (1853-1900), German diplomat killed during the Boxer Rebellion 義和團運動|义和团运动[Yi4he2tuan2 Yun4dong4] | |
| 好奇会吃苦头的 | hào qí huì chī kǔ tou de | Curiosity killed the cat. | |
| 川震 | Chuān zhèn | Sichuan great earthquake, the magnitude 8 earthquake of May 2008 at Wenchuan 汶川, Sichuan, that killed more than 80,000 people / same as 四川大地震[Si4 chuan1 Da4 di4 zhen4] | |
| 杉山彬 | Shān Shān bīn | Tsugiyama Akira, secretary at the Japanese legation killed during the Boxer uprising | |
| 李公朴 | Lǐ Gōng pǔ | Li Gongpu (-1946), communist killed by Guomindang in Kunming in 1946 | |
| 关东地震 | Guān dōng dì zhèn | Kantō / earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area | |
| 陕西大地震 | Shǎn xī dà dì zhèn | the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people | |
| 非活性疫苗 | fēi huó xìng yì miáo | inactivated vaccine / killed vaccine | |
| 牲体 | shēng tǐ | body of an animal (or human) killed sacrificially | |
| 耶洗别 | Yē xǐ bié | Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶|耶户[Ye1 hu4] | |
| 不干不净，吃了没病 | bù gān bù jìng , chī le méi bìng | a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm | |
| 吐便当 | tǔ biàn dāng | (slang) (of a character) to reappear in a story line after having been supposedly killed off / cf. 領盒飯|领盒饭[ling3 he2 fan4] | |
| 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 | |
| 活口 | huó kǒu | sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator / a captive who can provide information | |
