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  *干* | 干* | *干
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
HSK 1
outcome; result; consequence / in the end; as a result / to kill; to dispatch
HSK 2
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  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
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  *杀* | 杀* | *杀
to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack / to weaken; to reduce / (dialect) to smart / (used after a verb) extremely
HSK 5
to kill oneself / to commit suicide / to attempt suicide
HSK 5
to suffer damage, injury etc / damaged / injured / killed / robbed
HSK 7-9
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  *宰* | 宰* | *宰
to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
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  *刘* | 刘* | *刘
(classical) a type of battle-ax / to kill / to slaughter
homicide / to murder / to kill (a person)
to kill / to beat to death
to jump from a building (to kill oneself) / fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising)
to kill germs / to disinfect / to sterilize
lit. inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. a scam / protection racket / daylight robbery
to kill
to kill to the last one (idiom) / to exterminate / to eradicate / ruthless
to kill (or assault) sadistically
to kill (in hunting)
to kill with an explosion
to kill or capture (in battle) / (fig.) (sports) to score (a goal); to win (a medal) / (fig.) to reap rewards; to achieve gains
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)
to kill / to shoot dead
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
to hunt and kill (an animal or fish)
to kill secretly / to stab in the back
to kill oneself / suicide
to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting / (fig.) to snuff out
to kill / to murder
to chase to kill
to mistakenly kill / manslaughter
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb
to be killed for a righteous cause / to die a martyr
to fight and kill; to engage in fierce combat (also used figuratively of opposing chess players)
to meet violent death / to get killed
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
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  *殊* | 殊* | *殊
(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass / (bound form) different / (bound form) special; remarkable / (literary) very; extremely
sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator / a captive who can provide information
to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
lit. to kill the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others
to kill by poisoning
to kill / to put to death
(idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth
lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone
to kill indiscriminately / to massacre
to kill
(idiom) getting killed
to kill in revenge
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
to kill / to cull
to lose one's life / to get killed
patricide / to kill one's own father
to kill or injure
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
to kill two birds with one stone (idiom)
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
to kill sb / to murder
lit. to tear the ticket / to kill a hostage (usually held for ransom)
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  *戡* | 戡* | *戡
kill / suppress
rancid / to kill / to slaughter
to kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
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  *戕* | 戕* | *戕
to kill / to injure / Taiwan pr. [qiang2]
to pursue and kill / to wipe out
lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies
lit. to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom) / (fig.) control over the fate of others
bloody mouth (from devouring freshly killed prey)
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (idiom, refers to plot to kill Liu Bang during the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴 in 206 BC) / fig. an elaborate deception hiding malicious intent
imperial sword (giving bearer plenipotentiary powers) / imperial Chinese version of 007 licensed to kill
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  *杸* | 杸* | *杸
to kill / a spear
to kill
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  *戮* | 戮* | *戮
(bound form) to kill / (bound form) to join forces (variant of )
to attack and kill
variant of 尚方劍|尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill
to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc)
Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝
to fall to one's death / to kill by throwing to the ground
Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布
Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍|新四军, killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变
to eliminate; to kill off
to kill / to get rid of / (sports) to defeat / to eliminate
to kill and banish
to hack to death / to kill with an ax
Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII
to kill time
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
(literary) to massacre; to slaughter; to brutally kill
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
to sterilize; to disinfect / to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc)
Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶|耶户
lit. to open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. to carry out a scam / to run a protection racket / daylight robbery
goblin that kills or harms people / fig. wicked scoundrel / terrible pest
to kill / to cause death / to do sb to death
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
Clemens von Ketteler (1853-1900), German diplomat killed during the Boxer Rebellion 義和團運動|义和团运动
imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill
to kill with one's own hand
Li Gongpu (-1946), communist killed by Guomindang in Kunming in 1946

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