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Chinese symbol for “atrocity”

暴行
bào xíng
savage act; outrage; atrocity

The closest CC-CEDICT match for atrocity is 暴行 (bào xíng), defined as: savage act; outrage; atrocity.

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Characters and stroke order

暴 bào
violent, brutal, tyrannical
radical 72 ⽇ · 15 strokes
行 xíng
to go, to walk, to move; professional
radical 144 ⾏ · 6 strokes

Other Chinese words for “atrocity”

WordPinyinMeaning
惨剧 (慘劇)cǎn jùtragedy; calamity

Related words

Other words that share a character with 暴行.

WordPinyinMeaning
暴力bào lìviolence; force
风暴 (風暴)fēng bàostorm; violent commotion
暴露bào lùto expose; to reveal
暴动 (暴動)bào dònginsurrection; rebellion
强暴 (強暴)qiáng bàoviolent; to rape
暴雨bào yǔtorrential rain; rainstorm
进行 (進行)jìn xíng(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc)
举行 (舉行)jǔ xíngto hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “atrocity”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.