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他杀

tāshā

homicide (law)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

homicide (law)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 他杀 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 他杀 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

把他杀了!bǎ tā shā le!

Kill him!

他杀了他,以为他父亲的死报仇。tā shā le tā, yǐ wéi tā fù qīn de sǐ bào chóu。

He killed him to avenge his dead father.

他满脑子想的都是立刻得到鹅体内的金蛋,所以他杀了鹅,然后他发现鹅身体里没有任何东西。tā mǎn nǎo zi xiǎng de dōu shì lì kè dé dào é tǐ nèi de jīn dàn, suǒ yǐ tā shā le é, rán hòu tā fā xiàn é shēn tǐ lǐ méi yǒu rèn hé dōng xī。

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 他杀.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 他杀.

Directly before

  • 把他杀1
  • 所以他杀1

Directly after

  • 他杀了3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 他杀

What does 他杀 mean in Chinese?

他杀 (tāshā) means homicide (law).

How do you pronounce 他杀?

他杀 is pronounced tāshā.

Is 他杀 an HSK word?

他杀 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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