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地狱

dìyù

“Hell” in Chinese is 地狱 (dìyù).

Meaning

  • hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka
  • (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive

Example

他人即地狱。

Others are hell.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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More HSK 7-9 words

Not to be confused with: 地域 (dìyù, area) · 低于 (dīyú, to be lower than) · 抵御 (dǐyù, to resist)