Chinese Character Wiki

誅

zhū

execute

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 朱 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

朱 sound component

朱  Sound component

zhū

  

red pigment

Evolution

誅 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
誅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誅 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
誅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诛 (誅) 

zhū

execute, kill, put to death; punish; to put (a criminal) to death; to punish

Most common words with 誅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诛

to punish

口诛笔伐

to denounce by word and pen

诛杀

to kill

伏诛

to be executed

诛灭

to wipe out

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tro

trju

zhū

punish; kill


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3274th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

诛

Unicode

U+8A85

Shuowen

“誅，討也。从言，朱聲。”


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