诛
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to put (a criminal) to death; to punish
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 言 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 誅
- Common rank
- #2,230
- Unicode
- U+8BDB
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Formation & memory
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Words with 诛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人不为己，天诛地灭 | Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you.; Every man for him… | |
| 诛心之论 | a devastating criticism; to expose hidden motives | |
| 诛尽杀绝 | to wipe out; to exterminate | |
| 诛九族 | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
| 诛求无已 | to make endless exorbitant demands | |
| 诛求无厌 | (idiom) to relentlessly make excessive demands | |
| 窃国者侯，窃钩者诛 | steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom,… | |
| 窃钩者诛，窃国者侯 | steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom,… | |
| 诛心 | to criticize sb for what one believes to be their ulterior motive | |
| 天诛 | heavenly punishment; king's punishment | |
| 诛流 | to kill and banish | |
| 口诛笔伐 | to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom); to denounce by word and pen | |
| 族诛 | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
| 诛暴讨逆 | to wipe out the villains (e.g. insurgents, or people of another race) | |
| 诛杀 | to kill; to murder | |
| 诛求 | exorbitant demands; demanding with menaces; extortion | |
| 诛除 | to wipe out; to exterminate | |
| 伏诛 | to be executed | |
| 诛灭 | to wipe out; to exterminate | |
| 孙诛 | Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首[Tang2 shi1 … |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 朱 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朱 sound part | cinnabar, vermilion; surname | |
| 珠 | gem, jewel, pearl, precious stone | |
| 殊 | different, special, unusual | |
| 蛛 | spider | |
| 株 | root, stump; measure word for trees | |
| 侏 | small, tiny; dwarf | |
| 茱 | dogwood | |
| 铢 | a unit of weight, about 1 gram | |
| 洙 | a river in Shandong province | |
| 邾 | an ancient feudal state in Shandong province | |
| 姝 | beautiful, charming, gorgeous; pretty girl |