You shall not kill.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
杀人
homicide
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
homicide
02
to murder
03
to kill (a person)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 杀人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 杀人 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Thou shalt not kill.
He confessed to the murder.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 杀人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 杀人.
Directly before
- 会杀人2
- 不可杀人2
- 不会杀人1
- 是杀人1
- 了杀人1
Directly after
- 杀人的2
- 杀人凶手1
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 杀人
What does 杀人 mean in Chinese?
杀人 (shārén) means homicide.
How do you pronounce 杀人?
杀人 is pronounced shārén.
Is 杀人 an HSK word?
杀人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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