Taxonomy of meanings for 烹:　　

  • 烹 pēng (OC: pqhraaŋ MC: pʰɯiaŋ) 撫庚切 平 廣韻：【煑也俗作烹又許庚許兩二切 】
    • BOIL
      • viactboil; cook; prepare food
      • vtoNboil, broil or roast
      • vtoNpassiveget boiled aliveCH
      • vtoNjussivehave someone boiled aliveCH
    • EXECUTE
      • vtoNjussiveboil alive
      • vtoNpassiveget broiled; be broiled; receive the punishment of being cooked alive
      • nabpassiveact: being boiled aliveCH
    • COOK
      • FOOD
        • SMELT
          • FRIGHTEN

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            • 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.