| 烈士 | liè shì | martyr |   |
| 先烈 | xiān liè | martyr | |
| 忠烈 | zhōng liè | sacrifice oneself for one's country / martyr | |
| 英烈 | yīng liè | hero / martyr / heroic / valiant / heroic deeds | |
| 刘少奇 | Liú Shào qí | Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution | |
| 张华 | Zhāng Huà | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
| 就义 | jiù yì | to be killed for a righteous cause / to die a martyr | |
| 死难者 | sǐ nàn zhě | victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country | |
| 英灵 | yīng líng | spirit of a martyr / spirit of the brave departed / person of remarkable talent | |
| 秋瑾 | qiū jǐn | Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films | |
| 张志新 | Zhāng Zhì xīn | Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979 | |
| 烈属 | liè shǔ | family or dependents of martyr (in PRC, esp. revolutionary martyr) | |
| 杀身成仁 | shā shēn chéng rén | (idiom) to die a martyr / to be martyred | |
| 邹容 | Zōu Róng | Zou Rong (1885-1905), a martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, died in jail in 1905 | |
| 熊成基 | Xióng Chéng jī | Xiong Chengji (1887-1910), anti-Qing revolutionary and martyr | |
| 革命先烈 | gé mìng xiān liè | martyr to the revolution | |
| 革命烈士 | gé mìng liè shì | martyr of the revolution | |
| 国殇 | guó shāng | (literary) person who dies for their country / martyr to the national cause | |
| 张华 | Zhāng Huá | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
