- 吊丧 diàosāng to offer condolencesTo visit the family of the deceased to express sympathy and pay one's respects.
- 形影相吊 xíngyǐngxiāngdiào extremely lonely(idiom) with only one's body and shadow to comfort each other; lonely and without support; forlorn
- 吊客 diàokè mournera visitor who offers condolences at a funeral or home of the deceased
- 吊祭 diàojì to mourn and sacrificeto offer sacrifices to the deceased; to perform a worship ceremony for the dead
- 吊孝 diàoxiào to offer condolencesTo visit a bereaved family to offer condolences and pay respects to the deceased
- 吊民伐罪 diàomínfázuì to punish the guilty and comfort the people(idiom) to console the people by punishing their oppressive rulers; to launch a campaign for justice
- 吊问 diàowèn to pay a visit of condolenceTo visit the bereaved to offer condolences and pay one's respects to the deceased
- 吊文 diàowén funeral orationA literary genre of writing used to mourn or honor the deceased, such as a funeral address or eulogy
- 伐罪吊民 fázuìdiàomín to punish the guilty and comfort the peopleto punish the wicked and console the common people; to execute a just war against a tyrant for the sake of the population
- 吊死问疾 diàosǐwènjí to care for the sufferingto mourn for the dead and visit the sick; to show great concern for the hardships of the common people
- 吊伐 diàofá to punish tyrantsto console the people by punishing the tyrants; to comfort the suffering and strike down the guilty
- 吊古 diàogǔ to commemorate the past(literary) to visit ancient sites or ruins in order to reflect on and commemorate people and events of the past; to lament days gone by
- 吊喭 diàoyàn offer condolences(variant form) to express sympathy to the family of the deceased
- 吊影 diàoyǐng pitying one's shadow(literary) to look at one's own shadow and pity oneself, describing extreme loneliness or isolation
- 吊祀 diàosì offer sacrificesto mourn the dead and offer sacrifices to their spirits
- 吊诡 diàoguǐ paradoxicalstrange or bizarre; paradoxical. Originally from the Daoist classic [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi3]].
- 吊诡矜奇 diàoguǐjīnqí strange and paradoxicaldescribes speech or behavior that is bizarre, eccentric, or paradoxical; to act in a strange way to attract attention
- 祭吊 jìdiào to mourn and offer sacrificeto mourn the dead and offer prayers or sacrifices to the deceased
- 青蝇吊客 qīngyíngdiàokè having no true friends(idiom) used to describe someone who had no close friends in life and is only visited by flies after death; based on a historical quote by Yu Fan from the Records of the Three Kingdoms
- 马弔 mǎdiào madiao(historical) a traditional card game popular during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, involving forty cards divided into four suits