碎尸

碎屍
suìshī
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 dismembered body
  2. 2 to dismember a corpse

Examples

Jǐngfāng zài jiāowài fāxiàn le yī jù suìshī.
Police discovered a dismembered body in the suburbs.
Ànjiàn yīnwèi suìshī shǒufǎ cánrěn ér zhènjīng quánguó.
The case shocked the entire country because of the brutal dismemberment.

Tips

usage
Crime-news terminology. Functions as both a noun ('a dismembered body') and a verb ('to dismember a corpse'). The old idiom 碎尸 (suìshī wàn duàn, 'cut the body into ten thousand pieces') is a hyperbolic curse meaning 'I want to tear them apart'.

Stroke Order

suì
shī