诛 — Chinese character
诛
zhū
to execute, to kill; to punish
- Pinyin
- zhū
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 讠 朱
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 讠; sound component 朱
- Traditional
- 誅
Common words with 诛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诛杀 (誅殺) | zhū shā | to kill; to murder |
| 口诛笔伐 (口誅筆伐) | kǒu zhū bǐ fá | to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom); to denounce by word and pen |
| 诛灭 (誅滅) | zhū miè | to wipe out; to exterminate |
| 伏诛 (伏誅) | fú zhū | to be executed |
| 诛戮 (誅戮) | zhū lù | to put to death |
| 天诛 (天誅) | tiān zhū | heavenly punishment; king's punishment |
| 族诛 (族誅) | zú zhū | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) |
| 诛除 (誅除) | zhū chú | to wipe out; to exterminate |
| 诛心 (誅心) | zhū xīn | to criticize sb for what one believes to be their ulterior motive |
| 斧钺之诛 (斧鉞之誅) | fǔ yuè zhī zhū | to die by battle-ax (idiom); to be executed |
| 诛九族 (誅九族) | zhū jiǔ zú | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) |
| 诛心之论 (誅心之論) | zhū xīn zhī lùn | a devastating criticism; to expose hidden motives |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.