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- desperate getaway (from a battlefield)
- to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
- (of an organ) to have insufficient blood supply
- (of a blood bank) to run low on blood supplies
- (TCM) to practice bloodletting
- (medicine) to perform phlebotomy
- (coll.) to make sb bleed; to inflict grievous wounds
- (fig.) to cough up a large amount of money
- (fig.) to reduce prices drastically
Trad. 鐵血
- iron and blood; (fig.) weapons and war; bloody conflict
- (of a person) iron-willed and ready to die
Trad. 隱血
- occult blood (in medicine, fecal blood from internal bleeding)
Trad. 血暈
- coma caused by loss of blood
- fainting at the sight of blood
- Taiwan pr. [xie3 yun1]
Trad. 寶血
- (Christianity) Precious Blood (of Jesus Christ); Blood of Christ
Trad. 血書
- letter written in one's own blood, expressing determination, hatred, last wishes etc
- to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)
- clotted blood
- extravasated blood (leaking into surrounding tissue)
- thrombosis
- to cough up blood
- (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)
- field of blood
- battlefield
- hateful place
- Aceldama (field bought by Judas Iscariot with his 30 pieces of silver in Matthew 27:7)
- (medicine) (of blood) to flow back into the IV tube
- (gaming) to restore health points; (fig.) to recover (to some extent)
- hematin (blood pigment)
- heme
- hemoglobin
- also written 血紅蛋白|血红蛋白[xue4 hong2 dan4 bai2]
- leech
- bloodsucking vermin
- vampire (translated European notion)
- fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
- to hemorrhage
- (fig.) to make a huge loss (in selling sth); to spend a huge sum
Trad. 雞血石
- bloodstone
- red-fleck chalcedony
- heliotrope (mineralogy)
- hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)
Trad. 打雞血
- lit. to inject chicken blood
- (coll.) extremely excited or energetic (often used mockingly)
Trad. 汗血馬
- (in ancient times) Ferghana horse; (later) fine horse
- bloody; blood-soaked; gory; grisly
- cruel; brutal; harsh; grim; bitter
Trad. 血淚史
- (fig.) history full of suffering
- heart-rending story
- CL:部[bu4]
Trad. 豬血糕
- pig's blood cake, popular as a snack in Taiwan, made from glutinous rice and pig's blood, typically coated in peanut powder and coriander and served with dipping sauces
Trad. 血統論
- class division into proletariat and bourgeoisie class enemy, in use esp. during the Cultural Revolution