| 荼毒生灵 |
tú dú shēng líng |
to torment the people (idiom) |
| 荼 |
tú |
thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion |
| 荼毒 |
tú dú |
(literary) to cause great suffering |
| 毒 |
dú |
poison / to poison / poisonous / malicious / cruel / fierce / narcotics |
| 生 |
shēng |
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) |
| 生灵 |
shēng líng |
(literary) the people / living thing / creature |
| 灵 |
líng |
quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin |