凌ling4遲ci4

English

1. the lingering death
2. lingchi (slow slicing), a form of execution used in ancient China where the criminal's flesh was removed from their body bit by bit till the criminal's death
3. the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment)

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 中國古代一種死刑，將犯人嘅皮肉逐少逐少割落嚟，增加死前嘅痛苦

Examples

• 袁崇煥當年因為謀反被凌遲處死。

  Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced to death by lingchi because of treason.