Chinese symbol for “gruesome”
血肉模糊
xuè ròu mó hu
(idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gruesome is 血肉模糊 (xuè ròu mó hu), defined as: (idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 血肉模糊.
| 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 |
| 肌肉 | jī ròu | muscle; flesh |
| 牛肉 | niú ròu | beef |
| 模式 | mó shì | mode; pattern; model |
| 模糊 | mó hu | vague; indistinct; fuzzy; to blur; to obscure; to confuse; to mix up |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gruesome”.
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.