Chinese 僵尸 are different from Western zombies — they are stiff reanimated corpses that hop with arms outstretched. They featured heavily in 1980s-90s Hong Kong horror comedies, most famously 《僵尸先生》(Mr. Vampire, 1985).
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僵 (stiff/rigid) + 尸 (corpse) = a stiff corpse that moves — a zombie!
