誅
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
诛
🇨🇳
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 朱 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (誅)
Simplified (诛)
Notes
Sign in to add your own note
Similar Characters
唁 express condolence善 virtuous狺 the snarling of dogs謠 rumor (trad)這 this (trad)信 faith獄 prison (trad/jp)罰 penalize (trad/jp)訂 place an order (trad/jp)訃 obituary (trad/jp)訇 the sound of a crash計 plan (trad/jp)訌 confusion (trad)討 condemn (trad/jp)訓 instruction (trad/jp)訕 slander (trad)訖 stop (trad)託 entrust (trad/jp)記 remember (trad/jp)訚 speak (simp)
Historical Evolution
誅
Bronze
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
誅
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
誅
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
誅
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
誅
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
誅
Regular
Modern
Chinese
诛 / 誅 [zhū]
to put (a criminal) to death; to punish
Japanese
death penalty
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (23)
口诛笔伐 [kǒuzhūbǐfá] #59,352
to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom)
诛杀 [zhūshā] #31,935
to kill
伏诛 [fúzhū] #47,683
to be executed
诛灭 [zhūmiè] #51,343
to wipe out
诛戮 [zhūlù] #56,040
to put to death
诛除 [zhūchú] #58,448
to wipe out
族诛 [zúzhū] #62,950
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
诛心之论 [zhūxīnzhīlùn] #66,913
a devastating criticism
诛锄 [zhūchú] #70,529
to uproot
斧钺之诛 [fǔyuèzhīzhū] #73,700
to die by battle-ax (idiom); to be executed
13 more
items
JAPANESE WORDS (10)
天誅 [てんちゅう] #30,872
heaven's punishment
誅殺 [ちゅうさつ] #66,803
execution of a criminal
誅する [ちゅうする] #67,730
to put to death (e.g. a sinner, traitor, etc.)
誅伐 [ちゅうばつ] #89,290
assailing criminals
誅戮 [ちゅうりく] #99,996
putting a criminal to death
筆誅 [ひっちゅう] #166,096
written denunciation
苛斂誅求 [かれんちゅうきゅう] #168,531
exaction of heavy taxes
誅求 [ちゅうきゅう] #168,557
oppressive exaction (of taxes, etc.)
族誅 [ぞくちゅう]
execution of an offender's entire family as a deterrent to others (predominantly in Chinese history)
誅滅 [ちゅうめつ]
eradication of sinful people