KILL    殺殺

VOLUNTARILY CAUSE TO DIE.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The overwhelmingly dominant term referring to any form of taking the life of anything is shā 殺. 2. Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production. 3. Some words specify the number of objects killed: yí 夷, zú 族, jiān 殲 tú 屠 (when applied to humans) refer to the killing of groups of people. See PUNISHMENT. The other words refer normally to the killing of one person or a specified set of several persons. 4. Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.
Modern Chinese Criteria
殺 害死 殺死 誤殺 結果 害 殺害 要命 扼殺 幹掉 格斃 格殺 refers to killing someone in open combat. 撂倒 活活打死 first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis 18.11.2003. CH
Hyponym
  • HUNT　TRY to KILL WILD BEASTS OR BIRDS IN the COUNTRYSIDE OR IN a BIG PARK. (anc: 13/0, child: 2)
  • STRANGLE　KILL someone by BLOCKING BREATHING. (anc: 13/0, child: 0)
  • EXECUTE　KILL a PRISONER, OBEYING PUBLIC COMMAND. (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
  • MURDER　KILL a HUMAN NOT LEGITIMATELY. (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
  • SUICIDE　KILL ONESELF. (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
See also
  • PUNISHRESTRAIN OR DAMAGE a CULPRIT BECAUSE of his/her CRIMES.
Hypernym
  • CAUSE TO　MOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES. (anc: 11/0, child: 18)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • CHANGE　EVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2. (anc: 9/0, child: 18)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.76

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    KILL

    interficere are the most general expressions for putting some living being to death for any reason and under any circumstances.

    perimere is an old-fashioned precious word synonymous otherwise with interficere.

    interimere refers to murder in private contexts to remove someone.

    necare refers to killing someone cruelly as an unjust act of murder.

    occidere refers to killing by cutting someone down, especially by a soldier in open battle.

    iugulare refers to killing by cutting the throat or neck, or by a skilfuly-direct4ed thrust to the collar-bone, which is especially the biusiness of the bandit.

    obtruncare refers to the reckless butchering and cutting into pieces.

    trucidare refers to slaughtering a living being as one might a cow.

    percutere refers to taking someone's life as a mere mechanical act in the manner of an executioner of a death sentence.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 184

  • 韓非子同義詞研究 ( HANFEI TONGYI 2004) p. 164

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 19

  • “孟子”同義詞研究 ( MENGZI TONGYI 2002) p. 255

  • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 76

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.302

    • Words (78 items)

    殺  shā OC: sreed MC: ʂɣɛt
    煞  shā OC: sreed MC: ʂɣɛt 166 Attributions

    The overwhelmingly dominant term referring to any form of taking the life of anything is shā 殺.

      Word relations
    • Result: 刺/STAB
    • Ant: 成/COMPLETE The standard word for bringing anything to a successful conclusion is chéng 成.
    • Ant: 活/LIVE Huó 活 (ant. sǐ 死) specifically refers to the state of being alive when one might have been dead, and strongly connotes not only a failure to die but also the continued existence of life energy.
    • Ant: 生/LIVE The current standard word for being alive is shēng 生 (ant. sǐ 死 "be dead").
    • Contrast: 弒/MURDER Shì 弒 refers to assassination of a ruler, and always with negative connotations (the justified killing of a ruler would still be shā 殺).
    • Contrast: 誅/PUNISH
    • Assoc: 劫/ARROGATE Jíé 劫 adds to the notion of misapropriation that violence or threat of violence.
    • Assoc: 僇 / 戮/KILL

      Syntactic words
    • nabactthe act of killing> the taking of people's lives; murder
    • nabactgetting killed
    • nabautonymthe word 殺
    • nabcausativeact in a manner that will lead to the death of; cause the death of, cause to get killed; get (e.g. oneself) killed
    • vadNdesigned for killing, mortal
    • vadNpassive(who gets killed>) murdered
    • vpostadVV to death
    • vt(oN)kill the contextually determinate object
    • vt+prep+NN=humkill (somebody)
    • vt[oN]kill people, take the measure of killing people; kill animals (in hunt)
    • vtoNkillCH
    • vtoNcausativecause someone to sacrifice his life; cause someone to get killed
    • vtoNfigurativebe responsible for the death of
    • vtoNimperative, N=nonhumankill!CH
    • vtoNintentionintended to kill; run a campaign to get N killed
    • vtoNjussive不免有殺身之禍 have (someone/onself) killed; cause someone/oneself to lose his life, The general word, to be used about animals as well as humans (and occasionally about plants as well), for whatever cause or reason and with whatever means; (sometimes the killed person comes to life again as in ZUO 7.8.1.1
    • vtoNN=nonhukill (an animal)
    • vtoNobject=rulerkill (ruler or leader)
    • vtoNpassiveget killed
    • vtoNpassiveoften: get (oneself) killed; cause one's own death indirectly (not by suicie); sometimes: kill (oneself)
    • vtoNpassivederived: risk getting killedCH
    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (oneself)
    • vtoNsubject=statekill
    • vtpostadVresultativeresultative verbal complement (complement of degree?): V to the extent of killing N 踏殺 trample to death
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2N2=placekill N1 at the place N2DS
    剄  jǐng OC: keeŋʔ MC: keŋ 9 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcut the throat of (a person)
    • vtoNreflexive.自cut (one's own) throat
    餓  è OC: ŋaals MC: ŋɑ 7 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vi+N{PLACE}starve to death at Npl
    • vtoNcausative(cause to starve>) starve (someone); to starve (someone) to death
    死  sǐ OC: pliʔ MC: si 7 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadNwhich kills; which causes deathDS
    • vtoNcausativecause to die, put to death
    • vtoNcausativebe killed by ???
    • vtoNpassiveget killedLZ
    • vtoNpermissiveallow myself to die
    殪  yì OC: qiiɡs MC: ʔei 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNSHU: kill, slaughter
    • vtoNimperativeexecute!CH
    • vtoNpassiveget killed
    刃  rèn OC: njins MC: ȵin 5 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill with a sword; try to kill with a sword
    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (oneself) with a sword
    刺  cì OC: skhleɡs MC: tshiɛ 4 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill by stabbing
    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (onself)
    射  shè OC: ɢljaɡs MC: ʑɣɛ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill with an arrow
    斃  bì OC: beds MC: biɛi 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill
    • vtoNcausativecause the sudden death>destruction of
    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (onself), bring sudden death upon (oneself)
    殺害  shā hài OC: sreed ɡaads MC: ʂɣɛt ɦɑi 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabkilling
    • VPt(oN)kill the contextually determinate N
    • VPtoNharm by way of killing > kill
    • VPtoNpassiveget killed
    殉葬  xùn zàng OC: sɢʷlins tsaaŋs MC: zʷin tsɑŋ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPt[oN]bury victims alive (to honour a distinguished person)
    手自殺  shǒu zì shā sà MC: syuwX dzijH sreat OC: hmljuʔ sblids sreed 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill with one's own handsCH
    自殺  zì shā MC: dzijH sreat OC: sblids sreed 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill with one's own handsCH
    割  gē OC: kaad MC: kɑt 3 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 屠/KILL Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill (a sacrificial animal) by cutting up
    親殺  qīn shā MC: tshin sreat OC: tshiŋ sreed 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill personallyCH
    身自殺  shēn zì shā sà MC: syin dzijH sreat OC: qhjin sblids sreed 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill with one's own handsCH
    僇  lù OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: luk
    戮  lù OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: luk 2 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Result: 辱/DISGRACE Rǔ 辱 refers to public humiliation and public disgrace typically caused by overt actions or reactions of others.
    • Object: 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: 殺 / 煞/KILL The overwhelmingly dominant term referring to any form of taking the life of anything is shā 殺.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassiveget killed
    夷  yí OC: li MC: ji 2 Attributions

    Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNhave executed
    • vtoNpassivebe killed; be exterminated
    屠  tú OC: ɡ-laa MC: duo̝ 2 Attributions

    Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill (a person) cruelly; slaughter
    廢  fèi OC: pods MC: pi̯ɐi 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabacteuphemism for killing> removal
    • vadNmortal
    • vtoNeuphemistic: do away with
    殉  xùn OC: sɢʷlins MC: zʷin 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill as a sacrifical victim
    殲  jiān OC: tsem MC: tsiɛm 2 Attributions

    Some words specify the number of objects killed: yí 夷, zú 族, jiān 殲 tú 屠(when applied to humans) refer to the killing of groups of people. See PUNISHMENT. The other words refer normally to the killing of one person or a specified set of several persons.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill off, leaving no one alive (typically used to refer to the killing of enemy soldiers)
    • vtoNpassivebe killed
    劫殺  jié shā OC: kab sreed MC: ki̯ɐp ʂɣɛt 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabresultativeusurpation of power and assassination
    • VPadNpassivebound to have one's position usurped and to get killed
    餓殺  è shā OC: ŋaals sreed MC: ŋɑ ʂɣɛt 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativestarve to death
    殺生  shā shēng OC: sreed sraaŋ MC: ʂɣɛt ʂɣaŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabactkilling; murder
    • VPiactcommit murder; kill living creatures
    腊  xī OC: sqaɡ MC: siɛk 1 Attribution

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassiveget killed and made into dried meat
    襲弒  xí shì MC: zip syiH OC: zɯb lʰɯɡs 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNassassinate by a surprising attack DS
    裁  cái OC: sɡɯɯ MC: dzəi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (onself)
    裂  liè OC: b-red MC: liɛt 1 Attribution

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNdismember, tear apart with carts pulling the limbs of a person in different directions
    • vtoNpassivebe dismembered; be torn apart with carts pulling the limbs of a person in different directions
    解  jiě OC: kreeʔ MC: kɣɛ 1 Attribution

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNoccasionally, in idiomatic contexts only: dismember; amputate
    射殺  shè shā OC: ɢljaɡs sreed MC: ʑɣɛ ʂɣɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativekill
    除  chú OC: rla MC: ɖi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNget out of the way> kill
    雉  zhì MC: drijX OC: diʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassiveget strangled so one cannot breatheCH
    屠殺  tú shā OC: ɡ-laa sreed MC: duo̝ ʂɣɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativekill in the professional way of a butcher
    斬害  zhǎn hài OC: tsreemʔ ɡaads MC: ʈʂɣɛm ɦɑi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill
    身殺  shēn shā sà MC: syin sreat OC: qhjin sreed 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill personallyCH
    躬殺  gōng shā sà MC: kjuwng sreat OC: kʷɯŋ sreed 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill personallyCH
    艾殺  yì shā OC: ŋads sreed MC: ŋi̯ɐi ʂɣɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativecut down so as to kill
    斫殺  zhuó shā MC: tsyak sreat OC: tjaɡ sreed 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt(oN)chop the contextually determinate person to deathDS
    滅性  miè xìng MC: mjiet sjengH OC: med seŋs 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPireflexivebring about one own's deathLZ
    亡  wáng OC: maŋ MC: mi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNdestroy the life of
    伐  fá OC: bod MC: bi̯ɐt 1 Attribution

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 誅/EXECUTE The current general term for legal execution of a person condemned to death is zhū 誅.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNOBI: to slay (somebody), to decapitate ritually
    辟殺  pì shā OC: beɡ sreed MC: biɛk ʂɣɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNusing some legal pretext to have N killed
    斬艾  zhǎn yì OC: tsreemʔ ŋads MC: ʈʂɣɛm ŋi̯ɐi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNkill off
    劉  liú OC: b-ru MC: lɨu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vt[adN]passivethe killed lexically determinate N
    • vtoNkill
    扼昧  è mèi OC: qreeɡ mɯɯds MC: ʔɣɛk muo̝i 1 Attribution

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

      Syntactic words
    • NPabactmurder by strangulation
    打殺  dǎ shā OC: rtaaŋʔ sreed MC: tɣaŋ ʂɣɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativebeat to death
    夭  yāo OC: qrowʔ MC: ʔiɛu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcausativekill prematurely
    殺人  shā rén MC: sreat nyin OC: sreed njin 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe deadly (of poison etc.); be fatal for humansDS
    宰  zǎi OC: tsɯɯʔ MC: tsəi 1 Attribution

    Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNHANSHU: slaughter and cut up the meat of
    殺僇  shā liù OC: sreed ɡ-rus MC: ʂɣɛt lɨu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt[oN]engage in all sorts of killings and executions
    剄死  jǐng sǐ OC: keeŋʔ pliʔ MC: keŋ si 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNreflexive.自kill (oneself) by cutting the throat
    斬頭  zhǎn tóu OC: tsreemʔ doo MC: ʈʂɣɛm du 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt(oN)cut off the head of the contextually determinate N
    歿  mò OC: mɯɯd MC: muot 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (oneself)
    沒  mò OC: mɯɯd MC: muot 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcausativecause to go under, bring about the death of
    減食  jiǎn shí OC: kroomʔ ɢljɯɡ MC: kɣɛm ʑɨk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNstarve to death
    鴆毒  zhèn dú OC: ɡrlums duuɡ MC: ɖim duok 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabactpoisoning
    • VPtoNpoison to death
    殘殺  cán shā OC: dzaan sreed MC: dzɑn ʂɣɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativemaim so as to kill
    獲  huò OC: ɢʷreeɡ MC: ɦɣɛk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill after a chase; kill in battle?
    癘  lì OC: b-rads MC: liɛi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill; destroy
    盡  jìn OC: dzinʔ MC: dzin 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vt(oN)kill every one of the contextually determinate victims
    殺死  shā sǐ OC: sreed pliʔ MC: ʂɣɛt si 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNpassivebe killed
    誅  zhū OC: to MC: ʈi̯o 0 Attributions

    Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production.

      Syntactic words
    捐身  juān shēn OC: ɢʷlen qhjin MC: jiɛn ɕin 0 Attributions
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    • VPiactcommit murder
    鴆  zhèn OC: ɡrlums MC: ɖim 0 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

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    勦  chāo OC: dzraaw MC: ɖʐɣɛu 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNexterminate, annihilate
    笞殺  chī shā OC: rlʰɯ sreed MC: ʈhɨ ʂɣɛt 0 Attributions
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    • VPtoNresultativecane to death with a bamboo stick
    害  hài OC: ɡaads MC: ɦɑi 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNmurder
    弒  shì OC: lʰɯɡs MC: ɕɨ 0 Attributions

    Some words specify the range of objects murdered: Thus shì 弒 refers to the killing of a reigning ruler, zhū 誅 and yí 夷 refer to the killing of a convicted criminal; zǎi 宰 and tú3 屠 refer primarily to the slaughtering of animals for the purpose of food production.

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    拉  lā OC: ɡ-ruub MC: ləp 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNkill???
    挩  tuō OC: lʰood MC: thʷɑt 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNbeat to death, kill (GULIANG)
    族  zú OC: sɡooɡ MC: dzuk 0 Attributions

    Some words specify the number of objects killed: yí 夷, zú 族, jiān 殲 tú 屠(when applied to humans) refer to the killing of groups of people. See PUNISHMENT. The other words refer normally to the killing of one person or a specified set of several persons.

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    󰪀  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNkill
    𢼊胣  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC:
    𢼊胣  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNread chi?: OBI: disembowel
    毀沒  huǐ mò OC: qhʷralʔ mɯɯd MC: hiɛ muot 0 Attributions
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    • VPtoNdestroy so as to kill
    • VPtoNreflexive.自kill oneself
    絞  jiǎo OC: kreewʔ MC: kɣɛu 0 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

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    經  jīng OC: keeŋ MC: keŋ 0 Attributions
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    • vtoNreflexive.自kill (oneself)
    縊  yì OC: qleɡs MC: ʔiɛ 0 Attributions

    Some words specify modes of killing: cì 刺 is to murder by stabbing with a pointed object, typically a dagger; liè 裂 and jiě 解 refer to dismembering by a wide variety of methods; zhèn 鴆 refers to poisoning; jǐng 剄 refers to cutting the throat; xī 腊 refers to killing followed by making a person into minced meat; rèn 刃 is to kill with a sword; jiǎo 絞 and yì 縊 refer to strangulation, è4 mèi 扼昧 and refer to strangulation; è 餓 can refer to starving someone to death. For a more detailed account of the varieties of death penalties in ancient China see PUNISHMENT.

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