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奸杀 (jiān shā) — to rape and kill; to commit rape and murder

Definition

verb
to rape and killto commit rape and murder

Examples

  • 奸杀。
    Jǐng fāng pò huò le yì qǐ jiān shā àn jiàn.
    The police solved a rape-murder case.
  • ，奸杀。
    Tā bèi pàn chǔ sǐ xíng, yīn wèi jiān shā le yì míng nǚ xìng.
    He was sentenced to death because he raped and killed a woman.
  • 奸杀。
    Shè huì yīng dāng yán lì dǎ jī jiān shā xíng wéi.
    Society should severely crack down on rape-murder acts.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

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

奸jiānrape
杀shākill

The rape part and the killing part combine to describe both acts.

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
女女nǚ
Sound part声符shēngfú
干
干gān奸jiān
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

奸 is written with 女 (woman) on the left and 干 on the right; the evidence says 干 gives the sound and 女 marks the meaning.

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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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Crime & Police

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