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宰
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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)
Words Containing 宰
to get ripped off
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
to slaughter
ruler
to cheat customers
Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-president of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
kill the chickens and butcher the geese (idiom)
prime minister (in feudal China)
Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius
see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[gǔ ěr bāng jié]
slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
to slaughter
to rule
slaughterhouse
to dominate
to slaughter (an animal for meat)
to overcharge
to get trampled on (idiom)