| xiōng | vicious/fierce/terrible/fearful/violence/murder/criminal/murderer |
| xiōng | ominous/inauspicious/famine/crop failure |
| 凶 | terrible fearful |
| 凶事 | fateful accident inauspicious matter (involving death or casualties) |
| 凶人 | werewolf |
| 凶信 | fateful news news of sb's death |
| 凶兆 | ill omen |
| 凶光 | Fierce looks. |
| 凶党 | band of accomplice |
| 凶器 | lethal weapon murder weapon |
| 凶多吉少 | everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); inauspicious everything points to disaster |
| 凶嫌 | suspect |
| 凶宅 | inauspicious abode haunted house |
| 凶巴巴 | harsh savage fierce |
| 凶年 | year of famine |
| 凶恶 | fierce ferocious fiendish |
| 凶悍 | violent fierce and tough shrewish (woman) |
| 凶戾 | cruel tyrannical |
| 凶手 | murderer assassin |
| 凶暴 | brutal |
| 凶服 | mourning apparel |
| 凶杀 | to murder assassination |