MURDER  

KILL a HUMAN NOT LEGITIMATELY.
KILLPUT TO DEATHASSASSINATEEXECUTELIQUIDATEELIMINATEDISPATCHBUTCHERSLAUGHTERMASSACREWIPE OUTINFORMAL BUMP OFFDO INDO AWAY WITHKNOCK OFFBLOW AWAYBLOW SOMEONE'S BRAINS OUTTAKE OUTDISPOSE OFICERUB OUTSMOKEWASTELITERARY SLAY
Hypernym
  • KILLVOLUNTARILY CAUSE TO DIE.
    • CAUSE TOMOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
Hyponym
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for murder is the same as the general word for killing, shā 殺.

2. Shì 弒 refers to assassination of a ruler, and always with negative connotations (the justified killing of a ruler would still be shā 殺 ).

3. Cì 刺 is to stab and thereby kill.

4. Zéi 賊 refers to an arranged murder, often through a hired assassin.

5. Zhèn 鴆 is to kill with poison.

Modern Chinese Criteria
殺人

故殺

謀殺

他殺

仇殺

槍殺

絞殺

虐殺

殺害

凶殺

行凶

行刺

滅口

殘殺

殘害

下毒手

傷生害命

殺人越貨

荼毒生靈

坑殺

活埋

坑

下毒

放毒

投毒

毒殺

鴆害

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 21.42

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    MURDERER Dumesnil 1887

    homicida reers quite generally to someone who committed murder.

    interfector refers to someone who has taken someone elses life in any way, legal or illegal.

    peremptor ditto

    intermptor ditto.

    percussor refers to someone who takes another's life by executing a public sentence of condemnation.

    sicarius refers to a hired assassin who commits a concealed murder, like the bandit.

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    HOMICIDIUM

  • "Sachwoerterbuch zum Alten China" ( UNGER SACH) p.

    MORD

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 145B

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • vtoN : 94
  • n : 14
  • vtoN{PLACE} : 6
  • nab : 4
  • v[adN] : 4
  • vt[oN] : 2
  • vt(oN) : 1
  • vt+prep+N : 1
  • VPt+prep+N : 1
  • vi : 1
  • VPtoN : 1

Attributions by text

  • 春秋左傳 : 51
  • 韓非子 : 18
  • 史記 : 17
  • 春秋穀梁傳 : 10
  • 戰國策 : 6
  • 說苑 : 5
  • 淮南子 : 3
  • 論語 : 3
  • 孟子 : 3
  • 搜神記 : 2
  • 荀子 : 2
  • 尚書 : 2
  • 墨子 : 1
  • 劉義慶世說新語 : 1
  • 晏子春秋 : 1
  • 莊子 : 1
  • 呂氏春秋 : 1
  • 韓詩外傳 : 1
  • 楚辭 : 1

Words

弒  shì OC: lʰɯɡs MC: ɕɨ 71 AttributionsWD

Shì 弒 refers to assassination of a ruler, and always with negative connotations (the justified killing of a ruler would still be shā 殺).

    Word relations
  • Object: 君/RULER Jūn 君 (ant. chén 臣 "minister") refers specifically to someone who is politically or administratively in charge of others as a ruler.
  • Contrast: 劫/ARROGATE Jíé 劫 adds to the notion of misapropriation that violence or threat of violence.
  • Contrast: 殺 / 煞/KILL The overwhelmingly dominant term referring to any form of taking the life of anything is shā 殺.

    Syntactic words
  • nabactassassination; attempt at assassinationCH
  • vt[oN]murder rulers or superiorsCH
  • vtoNassassinate (a superior), whether one's ruler, parent, or elder sibling. Sometimes incirectly through a hired assassin
  • vtoNmurderCH
  • vtoNautonymto assassinate
  • vtoNpassiveget assassinated 見弒
賊  zéi OC: sɡɯɯɡ MC: dzək 23 AttributionsWD

Zéi 賊 refers to an arranged murder, often through a hired assassin.

    Syntactic words
  • nabactmurderous attack against a person
  • nagenthired murderer; person who was hired as murderer
  • vtoNmurder as hired murderer; kill secretly; to launch an indirect murderous attack against
屠  tú OC: ɡ-laa MC: duo̝ 8 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabactthe suffering of cruel murder
  • vtoNmassacre, kill cruelly;
  • vtoN{PLACE}massacre everyone at the place Npl
殺  shā OC: sreed MC: ʂɣɛt 6 AttributionsWD

The standard word for murder is the same as the general word for killing, shā 殺. See KILL

    Syntactic words
  • vt(oN)murder the contextually determinate NDS
  • vtoNkill somebody in an illegitimate way, assassinateDS
戕  qiāng OC: sɡaŋ MC: dzi̯ɐŋ 5 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vt+prep+Nmurder
  • vtoNinjure (often a ruler) deliberately, with lethal consequences (ZUO, GU)
  • vtoNautonymto murder
盜  dào OC: daaws MC: dɑu 4 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • v[adN](rarely:) common thief hired as murderer
刺  cì OC: skhleɡs MC: tshiɛ 3 AttributionsWD

Cì 刺 is to stab and thereby kill.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNstab (in order to kill)
虔  qián OC: ɡren MC: giɛn 3 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nagentmurderer
  • nsubject=humankiller; murderer
  • vt[oN]commit murder
  • vtoNmurder cruelly; ravage (a place) with murder
阬  kēng OC: khraaŋ MC: khɣaŋ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNbury alive in a pit
劉  liú OC: b-ru MC: lɨu 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNravage, SHU: kill cruelly on a large scale (archaic; according to Fangyan, a dialect word used in 秦, 晉, 宋 and 衛 and in the northern parts of 晉 for 殺).
殘  cán OC: dzaan MC: dzɑn 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • viactbe murderous
  • vtoNbe cruel towards to the point of murdering
  • vtoNpassivebe killed
行賊  xíng zéi OC: ɢraaŋ sɡɯɯɡ MC: ɦɣaŋ dzək 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPt+prep+Nmurder
誅屠  zhū tú OC: to ɡ-laa MC: ʈi̯o duo̝ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNresultativemassacre
鴆  zhèn OC: ɡrlums MC: ɖim 0 AttributionsWD

Zhèn 鴆 is to kill with poison.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNkill by poisoning

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