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Trad. 弔伐
- to console the people by punishing the tyrants (abbr. for 弔民伐罪|吊民伐罪[diao4 min2 fa2 zui4])
Trad. 弔祭
- a worship ceremony for the dead
- to offer sacrifice (to ancestors)
- a libation
Trad. 弔詭
- bizarre
- paradoxical
- a paradox (from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])
- to hang sb up and beat him
- (fig.) (slang) to own (one's opponent)
- to thoroughly dominate
Trad. 吊樓
- house overhanging a river, supported at the rear by stilts
- house built in a hilly area, supported by stilts
Trad. 憑弔
- to visit a place for the memories
- to pay homage to (the deceased)
Trad. 吊頂
- suspended ceiling; false ceiling
- to install a (decorative) suspended ceiling
- ghost of a person who died by hanging
- hanged person
- (coll.) inchworm
- hangman (word game)
- "infusion clan", patients who prefer medication by drip rather than orally or by injection etc
- (coll.) to keep sb in suspense
- to tantalize
- to keep on tenterhooks
Trad. 吊車尾
- (coll.) lowest-ranking (student, participant etc)
- to rank at the bottom of the list
- to finish last
Trad. 吊鐘花
- Chinese New Year flower (Enkianthus quinqueflorus)
Trad. 弔死問疾
- to grieve for the sick and the dying
- to show great concern for people's suffering
Trad. 弔民伐罪
- to console the people by punishing the tyrants (idiom)
Trad. 形影相弔
- with only body and shadow to comfort each other (idiom)
- extremely sad and lonely
Trad. 倒吊蠟燭
- Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
Trad. 提心吊膽
- (idiom) nervous; fearful; on edge
Trad. 繃巴吊拷
- variant of 繃扒吊拷|绷扒吊拷[beng1 ba1 diao4 kao3]
Trad. 繃扒吊拷
- to strip, tie up, hang and beat sb, an ancient torture technique
Trad. 一哭二鬧三上吊
- lit. to cry, then shout, then threaten suicide (saying)
- fig. to make a terrible scene; to throw a tantrum
Trad. 不要在一棵樹上吊死
- don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- there's more than one way to skin a cat