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
- 第一百十六回 Chapter 116 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
- 卷八十 列傳第十: 張儉 邢抱朴 馬得臣 蕭朴 耶律八哥 Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu eight brothers History of Liao 遼史 — count: 1
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
- 第三十一回 Chapter 31 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 92 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第六十八回 Chapter 68 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第七十四回 Chapter 74 Water Margin 水滸傳 — 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