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屠
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Definitions
- 1. to slaughter (animals for food)
- 2. to massacre
Words Containing 屠
poisonous writing
seven floor pagoda
Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wuxia (武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá], martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸[jīn yōng] and its screen adaptations
poison
butcher
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
slaughter
massacre; mass slaughter
butcher's knife
the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38)
lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom)
to massacre everyone in a captured city
butcher
Deepavali (Hindu festival)
to massacre; to slaughter
The Rape of Nanking (1997 documentary book by Iris Chang 張純如|张纯如[zhāng chún rú])
to slaughter
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)
slaughterhouse
slaughterhouse
butcher
lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
cash in transit (accountancy)
Buddha