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诛九族
zhū​jiǔ​zú

to execute all relatives

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Senses

诛九族/ 誅九族 zhū​jiǔ​zú to execute all relatives

(literary) to execute an offender's entire family, including all related households within the nine degrees of kinship, as a collective punishment for a capital crime

References

see 诛九族/誅九族 → 九族/九族
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