喋血

Chinese

		flowing flood; to chatter	blood
trad. (喋血/蹀血)		喋/蹀	血
simp. (喋血)		喋	血
alternative forms		啑血
Literally: “to step the blood”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diéxuè, diéxuě, diéxiě

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄩㄝˋ, ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄩㄝˇ, ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dip⁶ hyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diéxuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diésyuè
    • Wade–Giles: tieh²-hsüeh⁴
    • Yale: dyé-sywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyeshiueh
    • Palladius: десюэ (desjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛ³⁵ ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diéxuě
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄩㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diésyuě
    • Wade–Giles: tieh²-hsüeh³
    • Yale: dyé-sywě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyesheue
    • Palladius: десюэ (desjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛ³⁵ ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; colloquial in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diéxiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diésiě
    • Wade–Giles: tieh²-hsieh³
    • Yale: dyé-syě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyeshiee
    • Palladius: десе (dese)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛ³⁵ ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dip⁶ hyut³
    • Yale: dihp hyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dip⁹ hyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: dib⁶ hüd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːp̚² hyːt̚³/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: tep xwet

Rime
Character	喋	血
Reading #	2/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	添 (158)	先 (88)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	丁愜切	呼決切
Baxter	tep	xwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tep̚/	/hwet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tep̚/	/hʷet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛp̚/	/xuɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛp̚/	/hwɛt̚/
Li Rong	/tep̚/	/xuet̚/
Wang Li	/tiep̚/	/xiwet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tiep̚/	/xiwet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	die	xue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dip3	hyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'eːb  qʰʷiːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	血
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuè
Middle Chinese	‹ xwet ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁik/
English	blood
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	喋	血
Reading #	2/3	1/1
No.	11569	14098
Phonetic component	世	血
Rime group	盍	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	聑	血
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'eːb/	/*qʰʷiːɡ/
Notes	見史記

Verb

喋血

1. to slaughter; to massacre; to cause indiscriminate and violent death

   • 魏豹、彭越雖故賤，然已席卷千里，南面稱孤，喋血乘勝，日有聞矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     魏豹、彭越虽故贱，然已席卷千里，南面称孤，喋血乘胜，日有闻矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Wèi Bào, Péng Yuè suī gù jiàn, rán yǐ xíjuǎn qiānlǐ, nánmiàn chēnggū, diéxuè chéngshèng, rì yǒu wén yǐ. [Pinyin]

     Wei Bao and Peng Yue used to be lowly at first. Nevertheless, at a time they conquered large territories, called themselves kings, left a trail of blood behind them, pressed forward in victory, and increased their clout day by day.

   • 邑曰：「百萬之師，所過當滅。今屠此城，喋血而進，前歌後舞，顧不快邪！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     邑曰：「百万之师，所过当灭。今屠此城，喋血而进，前歌后舞，顾不快邪！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

     Yì yuē: “Bǎiwàn zhīshī, suǒguò dāngmiè. Jīn tú cǐchéng, diéxuè érjìn, qiángē hòuwǔ, gù bù kuài yé!” [Pinyin]

     Wang Yi said, "Wherever our force of a million strong passes, not a single opponent shall survive. Now let us massacre everyone defending that town and trample in their blood; let us then advance, our columns singing and dancing, and look back — wouldn't that be a supremely gratifying sight!"

Noun

喋血

1. (literary) bloodbath; carnage