Taxonomy of meanings for 戮:　　

  • 戮 lù (OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: liuk) 力竹切 入 廣韻：【刑戮説文殺也爾雅病也 】
    • BEHEAD
      • vtoNpunish by mutilation and then cut the head off the dead body; behead and then mutilate the body and display it to the public as humiliation
      • vtoNpassivebe punished by mutilation and subsequent beheading
      • nabactbeheading
    • COMBINE
      • vtoNcombine and coordinate (forces etc)
    • EXECUTE
      • viactstage executions
      • nobjecta person guilty of death;
      • nabactpublic execution
      • vtoNpassiveget executed 為戮
      • vtoNiussivehave (someone) killed; order (someone) to be killed
      • v[adN]N=humvictim of execution
    • HUMILIATE
      • vimiddle voicebe humiliated; allow oneself to be humiliated
      • vtoN+suobe humiliated (by the world) [Probably this should be regarded as an active vt, with a 所 understood. This needs reanalysis.CH]
      • nabactbeing humiliated
      • vtoNcausativehumiliate
      • vtoNpassivebe humiliated, be treated without due respect
    • INJURE
      • vtoNoccasionally, vt: maim (an already dead body)
    • KILL
      • vtoNpassiveget killed
  • 戮 lù (OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: liuk) 力竹切 入 廣韻：【同戮 】
  • 戮 liú (OC: ɡ-ru MC: liu) 力求切 平 廣韻：【并力也又力逐切 】
  • 戮 liù (OC: rɯw MC: liu) 力救切 去 廣韻：【併力又力竹切 】
  • lùASSASSINATE
    • vtoNassassinateCH
    • vtoNobject=rulerassassinateCH
  • lùASSASSINATE
    • vtoNassassinateCH
    • vtoNobject=rulerassassinateCH
  • lùPUNISH
    • vtoNpunish (physically)LZ

Additional information about 戮

說文解字: 【戮】，殺也。从戈、翏聲。 【力六切】

    Criteria
  • BEHEAD

    [[COMMON/RARE]]

    [GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

    [IDIOM/WORD]

    [REFLEXIVE/TRANSITIVE]

    1. The standard word for beheading others is zhǎn 斬.

    [GENERAL]

    2. Lù 戮 refers to beheading in addition to severe mutilation of the body and often involves beheading of the corpse.

    [SPECIFIC]

    3. Wěn 刎 "cut one's throat" is not strictly a case of beheading, and is most current as a mode of suicide.

    [REFLEXIVE]

    4. Xiāo shǒu 梟首 is beheading followed by public exposure on a wooden pillar.

    [IDIOM], [SPECIFIC]

  • EXECUTE

    1. The current general term for legal execution of a person condemned to death is zhū 誅.

    2. Lù 戮 refers to public and often even summary execution.

    3. Sì 肆 and xùn 徇 refer to public execution followed by exposure of the body to public view, with the focus on the latter.

    4. Zú 族 refers to legal execution of the whole clan of a culprit.

    5. Dà pì 大辟 is the bureaucratic legal term for capital punishment.

    6. Qì shì 棄市 refers to public execution in the market place.

    7. Jiǎo 絞 "strangulation"

    8. Pēng 烹 "boiling alive"

    9. Fēn chǐ 分胣 "cutting up and disembowelling"

    10. Kēng 坑 "burying alive"

    11. Chē liè 車列 "tearing apart between two vehicles"

    12. Zhī jiě 肢解 "dismembering"

    13. Fǔ 脯 "cutting into slices"

    14. Hǎi 醢 "cutting into small pieces"

    15. Zū 菹 "making into minced meat". See also BEHEAD.

    Word relations
  • Result: (KILL)辱/DISGRACE Rǔ 辱 refers to public humiliation and public disgrace typically caused by overt actions or reactions of others.
  • Object: (KILL)民/PEOPLE The dominant current general word for the people is mín 民 (ant. jūn 君 "ruler"), and this term refers to the people particularly insofar as they are ruled by a ruler or belong to a state.
  • Assoc: (EXECUTE)刑/PUNISH Xíng 刑 refers specifically to physical punishment.
  • Assoc: (KILL)殺 / 煞/KILL The overwhelmingly dominant term referring to any form of taking the life of anything is shā 殺.
  • Assoc: (HUMILIATE)笑/MOCK Xiào 笑 refers to non-verbalised mockery through sneering.
  • Assoc: (EXECUTE)菹 / 菹/EXECUTE Zū 菹"making into minced meat"