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猎杀 (liè shā) — to hunt and kill (animals, or metaphorically humans)

Definition

verb
to hunt and kill (animals, or metaphorically humans)

Examples

  • 猎杀。
    Liè rén liè shā le yì zhī lù.
    The hunter hunted and killed a deer.
  • 猎杀。
    Zhè zhǒng fēi fǎ liè shā xíng wéi bì xū bèi zhì zhǐ.
    This kind of illegal hunting and killing must be stopped.
  • ，猎杀。
    Zài zhàn zhēng zhōng, wú gū de píng mín bèi liè shā.
    In war, innocent civilians were hunted and killed.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

猎lièhunt
杀shākill

猎 'hunt' and 杀 'kill' stand side by side for hunting and killing.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
犬犬quǎndog
Sound part声符shēngfú
昔
昔xī猎liè
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In 猎, the left part 犬 means dog and the right part 昔 provides the sound.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 殺; 杀 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 殺 comes from an old drawing of a boar impaled in the head, with 人 and 又 added to show a person doing the killing; the simplified 杀 is a later abbreviation.

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Animals & Mammals

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