"Slaughter" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zǎi 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)
 shā lù to massacre / to slaughter
 tú zǎi to slaughter / to butcher
 cán shā to massacre / to slaughter
 cán hài to injure / to devastate / to slaughter
 zǎi shā to slaughter (an animal for meat) / to butcher
 zǎi gē to slaughter / (fig.) to ride roughshod over / to take advantage of (others)
 tú lù slaughter / massacre
 cǎn shā to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
 Liú (classical) a type of battle-ax / to kill / to slaughter
 tú to slaughter (animals for food) / to massacre
 hā la rancid / to kill / to slaughter
 cǎn lù (literary) to massacre / to slaughter / to brutally kill
 gē jī yān yòng niú dāo lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[sha1 ji1 yan1 yong4 niu2 dao1]
 gǔ ròu xiāng cán close kindred slaughter one another (idiom) / internecine strife
 shā niú zǎi yáng slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep / to prepare a big feast (idiom)
 shā zhū zǎi yáng to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
 làn shā wú gū willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
 Yē lu:4 Chǔ cái Yelü / Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it
  European Convention for the Protection of Animals for Slaughter
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