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Chinese
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flowing flood; to chatter
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blood
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| trad. (喋血/蹀血)
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喋/蹀
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血
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| simp. (喋血)
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喋
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血
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| alternative forms
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啑血
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| Literally: “to step the blood”.
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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血
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xuè
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xwet ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m̥ˁik/
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| English
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blood
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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喋
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血
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| Reading #
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2/3
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1/1
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| No.
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11569
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14098
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Phonetic
component
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世
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血
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Rime
group
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盍
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質
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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聑
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血
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʔl'eːb/
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/*qʰʷiːɡ/
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| Notes
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見史記
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Verb
喋血
- to slaughter; to massacre; to cause indiscriminate and violent death
魏豹、彭越雖故賤，然已席卷千里，南面稱孤，喋血乘勝，日有聞矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
魏豹、彭越虽故贱，然已席卷千里，南面称孤，喋血乘胜，日有闻矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- Wèi Bào, Péng Yuè suī gù jiàn, rán yǐ xíjuǎn qiānlǐ, nánmiàn chēnggū, diéxuè chéngshèng, rì yǒu wén yǐ.
- Wei Bao and Peng Yue used to be lowly at first. Nevertheless, at a time they conquered large territories, called themselves kings, left a trail of blood behind them, pressed forward in victory, and increased their clout day by day.
邑曰：「百萬之師，所過當滅。今屠此城，喋血而進，前歌後舞，顧不快邪！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
邑曰：「百万之师，所过当灭。今屠此城，喋血而进，前歌后舞，顾不快邪！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Book of Han, circa 1st century CE
- Yì yuē: “Bǎiwàn zhīshī, suǒguò dāngmiè. Jīn tú cǐchéng, diéxuè érjìn, qiángē hòuwǔ, gù bù kuài yé!”
- Wang Yi said, "Wherever our force of a million strong passes, not a single opponent shall survive. Now let us massacre everyone defending that town and trample in their blood; let us then advance, our columns singing and dancing, and look back — wouldn't that be a supremely gratifying sight!"
Noun
喋血
- (literary) bloodbath; carnage