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- (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)
- (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
- variant of 屍|尸[shi1]
Trad. 收屍
- to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body
Trad. 屍首
- dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离[shi1 shou5 fen1 li2] or 屍首異處|尸首异处[shi1 shou5 yi4 chu4], decapitation is implied.)
Trad. 陳屍
- to lie dead (in a location); to be found dead (somewhere) (used in news reports about unnatural or unexplained deaths)
Trad. 詐屍
- sudden movement of a corpse (superstition)
- fig. sudden torrent of abuse
Trad. 殭屍粉
- "zombie fans", fake followers that can be bought to boost one's popularity on Weibo, Baidu etc
Trad. 屍橫遍野
- (idiom) corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
Trad. 僵屍網絡
- botnet
- zombie network
- slave network (used by spammers)
Trad. 借屍還魂
- lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise
Trad. 行屍走肉
- walking corpse (idiom)
- zombie
- person who lives only on the material level
Trad. 馬革裹屍
- to be buried in a horse hide (idiom)
- to give one's life on the battlefield
Trad. 掘墓鞭屍
- to exhume a body for public flogging (idiom)
Trad. 橫屍遍野
- corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
Trad. 碎屍萬段
- (idiom) to cut up sb's body into thousands of pieces (a hyperbolic threat)
Trad. 屍山血海
- lit. mountains of corpses and oceans of blood (idiom)
- fig. a scene of wholesale slaughter