宰
Definitions
- 1. to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc)
- 2. (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge
- 3. (bound form) to govern; to rule
- 4. (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
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Do not use 宰 for killing people; use 杀 instead.
Example Sentences
1 shown他 宰 了一只鸡。
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Words Containing 宰
to dominate
to get trampled on (idiom)
ruler
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
to overcharge
to rule
to slaughter
to cheat customers
to slaughter (an animal for meat)
see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[gǔ ěr bāng jié]
prime minister (in feudal China)
to slaughter
slaughterhouse
Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
to get ripped off
slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
kill the chickens and butcher the geese (idiom)
Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-president of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890