(lit.) to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom); (fig.) control over the fate of others
trad. 生殺予奪
Also written 生殺予奪【shēng shā yǔ duó】
Characters in this word
4生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
杀
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to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack, to weaken; to reduce, (dialect) to smart, (used after a verb) extremely
- Pinyin
- shā
- Traditional
- 殺
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 218 of 2500
予
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(archaic) I, me
- Pinyin
- yú
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 39371 of 2500
夺
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to seize, to take away forcibly, to wrest control of, to compete or strive for, to force one's way through, to leave out, to lose
- Pinyin
- duó
- Traditional
- 奪
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 25848 of 2500