Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 宰

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)

to slaughter (an animal for meat)
to butcher

to slaughter
to butcher

to dominate
to rule
to dictate
master

to slaughter
(fig.) to ride roughshod over
to take advantage of (others)

prime minister (in feudal China)

to cheat customers
to overcharge

Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius

to rule
to dominate

(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)

to get ripped off

to overcharge
to rip sb off

Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan

see 古爾邦節／古尔邦节 ( Gǔ'ěrbāngjié)

slaughterhouse
abattoir

ruler

kill the chickens and butcher the geese (idiom)

Zǎi Yǔzhòuqǐn

Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures

Tiěxuèzǎixiàng

Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-president of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890

shāzhūzǎiyáng

to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)

rènrénzǎigē

to get trampled on (idiom)
to be taken advantage of

shāniúzǎiyáng

slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep
to prepare a big feast (idiom)