Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zǎi
English
- to slaughter
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc)
- to rule
- (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge
- (bound form) to govern; to rule
- (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
- to slaughter; to butcher
- to govern; to administer
粵語
- 為咗得到肉類食物而殺咗啲動物
- 治理
As a component in
Words containing 宰
- 主宰zyu2 zoi2
to dominate
- 宰相zoi2 soeng3
prime minister (in feudal China)
- 宰殺zoi2 saat3
to slaughter (an animal for meat)
- 屠宰tou4 zoi2
to slaughter
- 宰割zoi2 got3
to slaughter
- 宰客zoi2 haak3
to cheat customers
- 主宰者zyu2 zoi2 ze2
ruler
- 宰人zoi2 jan4
to overcharge
- 宰了zoi2 liu5
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
- 宰制zoi2 zai3
to rule
- 挨宰aai1 zoi2
to get ripped off
- 宰予zoi2 jyu4
Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius
- 宰牲節zoi2 sang1 zit3
see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[Gu3 er3 bang1 jie2]
- 主宰權zyu2 zoi2 kyun4
- 鐵血宰相tit3 hyut3 zoi2 soeng3
Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-president of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890
- 屠宰場tou4 zoi2 coeng4
slaughterhouse
- 屠宰業tou4 zoi2 jip6
- 巴宰族baa1 zoi2 zuk6
Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
- 殺豬宰羊saat3 zyu1 zoi2 joeng4
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
- 任人宰割jam6 jan4 zoi2 got3
to get trampled on (idiom)
- 殺牛宰羊saat3 ngau4 zoi2 joeng4
- 殺雞宰鵝saat3 gai1 zoi2 ngo4
- 宰予晝寢zoi2 jyu5 zau3 cam2