"Mortal" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhì mìng fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
 fán rén ordinary person / mortal / earthling
 huì sǐ mortal
 luàn shì the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world
 chén shì this mortal life / the mundane world
 tuō tāi huàn gǔ to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom) / born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly / to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
 sǐ lǐ táo shēng mortal danger, escape alive (idiom) / a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
 sǐ zuì mortal crime / capital offense
 sǐ dí mortal enemy / arch-enemy
 zhì mìng shāng mortal wound / (fig.) fatal weakness / Achilles' heel
 fán fū common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
 xiān shì to die / to depart this mortal coil
 zhuó shì the world in chaos / troubled times / the mortal world (Buddhism)
 chòu pí náng this mortal flesh
 pò soul / mortal soul, i.e. attached to the body
 zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) / to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger / fig. to find a way out of an impasse
 sān hún qī pò three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man
 suì xīn liè dǎn in mortal fear (idiom)
 zhì zhī sǐ dì to place sb on field of death / to confront with mortal danger / to give sb no way out / with one's back to the wall / looking death in the eye / part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生
 bù miǎn yī sǐ cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal
 qī pò seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires / contrasted with 三魂 / three immortal souls
 fán chén mundane world (in religious context) / this mortal coil
 tuō gǔ huàn tāi to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom) / born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly
 yí tuì to shed skin / to leave one's mortal envelope / remains (of a priest)
 sā shǒu rén huán to leave one's mortal frame (idiom) / to die
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