尸横遍野
shī​héng​biàn​yě

field littered with corpses

  • created sense approved 尸横遍野/屍橫遍野 · shī​héng​biàn​yě · field littered with corpses — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    尸横遍野 / 屍橫遍野

    shī​héng​biàn​yě

    field littered with corpses

    corpses are strewn across the field; used as an idiom to describe a scene where a very large number of people have been killed, typically after a battle

    尸 (literal) → 尸/屍 · shī · corpse 横 (literal) → 横/橫 · héng · to cross 遍野 (literal) → 遍野 · biàn​yě · everywhere

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    created sense