| 扬幡招魂 |
yáng fān zhāo hún |
(lit.) to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom) / (fig.) to try to revive what is obsolete or dead |
| 扬 |
Yáng |
abbr. for Yangzhou 扬州 in Jiangsu / surname Yang |
| 扬 |
yáng |
to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate |
| 扬 |
yáng |
variant of 扬 |
| 幡 |
fān |
banner |
| 招 |
zhāo |
to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess |
| 招魂 |
zhāo hún |
to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill / (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc) |
| 魂 |
hún |
old variant of 魂 |
| 魂 |
hún |
soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body) |