宰
to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (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)
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,519 U+5BB0
How 宰 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A barracks 宀 where slaves 辛 live
How to remember it
butcher · Heisig RSH #2553
house + chili pepper
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 宰 as their sound component
These characters all use 宰 (zǎi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宰 sound component | zǎi | to slaughter, to butcher; to govern, to rule |
| 滓 | zǐ | sediment, lees, dregs |
Words containing 宰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 铁血宰相 | Tiě xuè zǎi xiàng | Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-pr… |
| 主宰者 | zhǔ zǎi zhě | ruler |
| 巴宰族 | Bā zǎi zú | Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan |
| 任人宰割 | rèn rén zǎi gē | to get trampled on (idiom); to be taken advantage of |
| 杀猪宰羊 | shā zhū zǎi yáng | to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom) |
| 宰人 | zǎi rén | to overcharge; to rip sb off |
| 主宰 | zhǔ zǎi | to dominate; to rule; to dictate; master |
| 宰相 | zǎi xiàng | prime minister (in feudal China) |
| 宰制 | zǎi zhì | to rule; to dominate |
| 宰客 | zǎi kè | to cheat customers; to overcharge |
| 宰了 | zǎi le | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) |
| 宰杀 | zǎi shā | to slaughter (an animal for meat); to butcher |
| 屠宰场 | tú zǎi chǎng | slaughterhouse; abattoir |
| 宰牲节 | Zǎi shēng jié | see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[Gu3 er3 bang1 jie2] |
| 宰割 | zǎi gē | to slaughter; (fig.) to ride roughshod over; to take advantage of (others) |
| 挨宰 | ái zǎi | to get ripped off |
| 屠宰 | tú zǎi | to slaughter; to butcher |
| 宰予 | Zǎi Yú | Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius |