罪不容誅
zuì​bù​róng​zhū

death cannot atone for the crime

  • created sense approved 罪不容诛/罪不容誅 · zuì​bù​róng​zhū · death cannot atone for the crime — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    罪不容诛 / 罪不容誅

    zuì​bù​róng​zhū

    death cannot atone for the crime

    describes a crime so heinous that even executing the offender would not be enough to atone for it; guilty of most atrocious crimes

    罪 (literal) → 罪 · zuì · crime 不容 (literal) → 不容 · bù​róng · to not allow 诛 (literal) → 诛/誅 · zhū · to execute

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense