诛九族
zhū​jiǔ​zú

to execute all relatives

  • created reference approved 诛九族/誅九族 → 九族 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    诛九族 / 誅九族 zhū​jiǔ​zú

    九族 jiǔ​zú

    see

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  • created sense approved 诛九族/誅九族 · zhū​jiǔ​zú · to execute all relatives — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    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

    诛 (literal) → 诛/誅 · zhū · to execute 九族 (literal) → 九族 · jiǔ​zú · nine degrees of kinship

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

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