Chinese symbol for “bloodbath”
血流成河
xuè liú chéng hé
rivers of blood (idiom); bloodbath
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bloodbath is 血流成河 (xuè liú chéng hé), defined as: rivers of blood (idiom); bloodbath.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bloodbath”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 血流成河.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 血液 | xuè yè | blood; (fig.) lifeblood |
| 血腥 | xuè xīng | reeking of blood; bloody (events) |
| 流血 | liú xuè | to bleed; to shed blood |
| 血统 (血統) | xuè tǒng | blood relationship; lineage |
| 血管 | xuè guǎn | vein; artery |
| 吸血鬼 | xī xuè guǐ | leech; bloodsucking vermin |
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
| 成为 (成為) | chéng wéi | to become; to turn into |
| 河流 | hé liú | river; 条 (tiáo) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bloodbath”.
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.