Killing is a Chinese word, which means killing people or animals violently and cruelly. Synonyms and synonyms of killing: slaughter, slaughter, annihilation, killing, slaughter, extinction, extinction, culling, taking life, etc. Killing is a noun.
Killing words come from Chinese words and first appeared in Han dynasty documents, such as Historical Records and Biography of Han Feizi. At first, it was mainly used to describe wars, killings, massacres and other violent acts. With the development of time, the word has gradually expanded to describe all kinds of violence, including individual murder, mass slaughter, and even can be used to describe the behavior of raptors preying on other animals.
The evolution of killing can be observed from its glyph and semantics.
Glyph: in the glyph of killing, killing refers to behavior, and killing refers to killing or slaughtering. The word "slash" on the glyph consists of Ge (weapon) and Lu (chop), which expresses the meaning of chopping with weapons.
Semantics: The earliest killing is mainly used to describe the killing behavior in wars and conflicts, which means violence and blood. Over time, killing gradually expanded to describe other forms of violence, including individual murder, organized slaughter, and even cruel predation between animals.
Skills of learning words
1, Read more and listen more: By reading and listening to texts and dialogues in various fields, you can get in touch with rich vocabulary. Reading more articles of different writing types, such as news, novels, magazines and academic papers, and listening to lectures, speeches, radio and other various language contents will help to expand your vocabulary.
2. Recite words in a targeted way: choose words related to your learning goals and interests to recite. With the help of word cards, mobile phone applications, online vocabulary resources and other tools, words, phrases and derivatives can be systematically studied and memorized.
3. Understand the roots and affixes: Learning the meanings and laws of roots and affixes is helpful to quickly guess and understand the meaning of new words. For example, bio stands for life and graph stands for writing or drawing, so biology can be inferred as biology and aggregate can be inferred as aggregate.