Somebody was murdered.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
谋杀
to murder
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to murder
02
to assassinate
03
intentional homicide
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 谋杀 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 谋杀 appears in 17 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He bragged about the killing.
The police accused him of murder.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 谋杀.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 谋杀.
Directly before
- 被谋杀5
- 是谋杀2
- 他谋杀2
- 解开谋杀1
- 指控谋杀1
Directly after
- 谋杀的3
- 谋杀了3
- 谋杀背后1
- 谋杀这位1
- 谋杀被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 谋杀
What does 谋杀 mean in Chinese?
谋杀 (móushā) means to murder.
How do you pronounce 谋杀?
谋杀 is pronounced móushā.
Is 谋杀 an HSK word?
谋杀 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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