偿命 (償命) chángmìng
chángmìng
verb
to repay with one's life
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Of a murderer to pay for the crime with his life (CC-CEDICT '償命'; Guoyu '償命'; Mathews 1931 '償命', p. 26)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第五十一回 Chapter 51 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第三十一回 Chapter 31 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 卷三百二十七 列傳第二百十五 外國八 韃靼 Volume 327 Biographies 215: Foreign States 8 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 112 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二十七回 Chapter 27 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第四十五回 Chapter 45 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
- 第七十四回 Chapter 74 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第二十九回 Chapter 29 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 85 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
Collocations
- 要偿命 (要償命) 打死了總是要償命的 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 85 — count: 2
- 去偿命 (去償命) 你不去償命坐牢 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十八回 Chapter 38 — count: 2