橫屍遍野
héng​shī​biàn​yě

corpses are strewn across the field

  • created sense approved 横尸遍野/橫屍遍野 · héng​shī​biàn​yě · corpses are strewn across the field — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    横尸遍野 / 橫屍遍野

    héng​shī​biàn​yě

    corpses are strewn across the field

    Corpses are strewn everywhere across the land, typically describing the aftermath of a battle or natural disaster.

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

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense