{"path":"/entry/80970","title":"穷凶极恶 / 窮凶極惡 (qióng xiōng jí è) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"穷凶极恶 / 窮凶極惡 (qióng xiōng jí è): fiendish. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":80970,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["穷凶极恶"],"TRADITIONAL":["窮凶極惡"]}},"phonetic":"qióng xiōng jí è","phoneticKey":"qiong2 xiong1 ji2 e4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"fiendish","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"black-hearted","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":26935,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Book of Han, Vol. 99 (《王莽傳》贊, Eulogy to the Memoir of Wang Mang)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"乃始恣睢，奋其威诈，滔天虐民，穷凶恶极，毒流诸夏，乱延蛮貉，犹未足逞其欲焉。","traditional":"乃始恣睢，奮其威詐，滔天虐民，窮凶惡極，毒流諸夏，亂延蠻貉，猶未足逞其欲焉。"},"phonetic":"Nǎi shǐ zìsuī, fèn qí wēizhà, tāotiān nüè mín, qióng xiōng è jí, dú liú zhūxià, luàn yán mánmò, yóuwèi zú chěng qí yù yān.","english":"Then for the first time Wang Mang gave rein to his desires and revealed his tyrannousness and deceitfulness; by oppressing the common people, his crimes towered above the skies. He had exhausted banefulness and attained the limit of evil, exerting a widespread pernicious influence and disorder among the Chinese and the barbarians as well, his desires still yet to be satisfied.","ref":"The Book of Han, circa 1ˢᵗ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}