Chinese symbol for “grisly”
血淋淋
xiě lín lín
bloody; blood-soaked; gory; grisly; cruel; brutal; harsh; grim; bitter
The closest CC-CEDICT match for grisly is 血淋淋 (xiě lín lín), defined as: bloody; blood-soaked; gory; grisly; cruel; brutal; harsh; grim; bitter.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 血淋淋.
| 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 |
| 冰淇淋 | bīng qí lín | ice cream |
| 淋浴 | lín yù | to take a shower; shower |
| 淋漓尽致 (淋漓盡致) | lín lí jìn zhì | lit. extreme saturation (idiom); fig. vividly and thoroughly |
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.