屠
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to slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 尸 +9
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 屠
- Common rank
- #2,181
- Unicode
- U+5C60
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 屠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 放下屠刀，立地成佛 | lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation; to … | |
| 死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪 | lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with b… | |
| 救人一命胜造七级浮屠 | saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom) | |
| 南京大屠杀 | the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) | |
| 大屠杀 | massacre; mass slaughter | |
| 屠毒笔墨 | poisonous writing; disparaging writing; calumny | |
| 七级浮屠 | seven floor pagoda | |
| 婆罗浮屠 | Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia) | |
| 倚天屠龙记 | Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wuxia (武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2], martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin… | |
| 屠城 | to massacre everyone in a captured city | |
| 屠场 | slaughterhouse; abattoir | |
| 屠格涅夫 | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist | |
| 屠夫 | butcher; fig. murderous dictator | |
| 屠毒 | poison; to murder by poison | |
| 屠伯 | butcher; fig. brutal killer | |
| 屠刀 | butcher's knife; abattoir hatchet | |
| 屠杀 | to massacre; to slaughter | |
| 屠户 | butcher | |
| 屠妖节 | Deepavali (Hindu festival) | |
| 浮屠 | Buddha; Buddhist stupa (transliteration of Pali thupo) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound part | that which; they who; those who | |
| 都 | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital | |
| 猪 | pig, hog, wild boar | |
| 诸 | all, many, various; surname | |
| 著 | to show, to prove, to make known | |
| 署 | bureau, public office; to sign | |
| 赌 | to bet, to gamble, to wager | |
| 绪 | mental state; thread, clue | |
| 暑 | hot; heat; summer | |
| 煮 | to boil, to cook | |
| 堵 | wall; to stop, to prevent, to block | |
| 奢 | exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful | |
| 睹 | to look at, to gaze at; to observe | |
| 渚 | islet, sandbar | |
| 箸 | chopsticks | |
| 褚 | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname | |
| 赭 | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown | |
| 啫 | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning | |
| 楮 | mulberry; paper |