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
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 ／
Hyponym
  • ASSASSINATE　MURDER ONE'S RULER.  (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • KILL　VOLUNTARILY CAUSE TO DIE. (anc: 12/0, child: 5)
  • 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)
  • 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

    • Words (14 items)

    弒  shì OC: lʰɯɡs MC: ɕɨ 71 Attributions

    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 Attributions

    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 Attributions
      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 Attributions

    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 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt+prep+Nmurder
    • vtoNinjure (often a ruler) deliberately, with lethal consequences (ZUO, GU)
    • vtoNautonymto murder
    盜  dào OC: daaws MC: dɑu 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • v[adN](rarely:) common thief hired as murderer
    虔  qián OC: ɡren MC: giɛn 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nagentmurderer
    • nsubject=humankiller; murderer
    • vt[oN]commit murder
    • vtoNmurder cruelly; ravage (a place) with murder
    刺  cì OC: skhleɡs MC: tshiɛ 3 Attributions

    Cì 刺 is to stab and thereby kill.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNstab (in order to kill)
    阬  kēng OC: khraaŋ MC: khɣaŋ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNbury alive in a pit
    行賊  xíng zéi OC: ɢraaŋ sɡɯɯɡ MC: ɦɣaŋ dzək 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt+prep+Nmurder
    誅屠  zhū tú OC: to ɡ-laa MC: ʈi̯o duo̝ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativemassacre
    劉  liú OC: b-ru MC: lɨu 1 Attribution
      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 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • viactbe murderous
    • vtoNbe cruel towards to the point of murdering
    • vtoNpassivebe killed
    鴆  zhèn OC: ɡrlums MC: ɖim 0 Attributions

    Zhèn 鴆 is to kill with poison.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNkill by poisoning