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凶手

xiōng shǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 兇手

凶手 (xiōng shǒu) means "murderer; assassin". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 凶手 means

1. murderer
2. assassin

The characters in 凶手

• 凶xiōngterrible; fearful
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

Example sentences

• 凶手还没有抓到。
  The murderer is still at large.
• 她确认他是杀人凶手。
  Tā quèrèn tā shì shārén xiōngshǒu.
  She identified him as the murderer.
• 凶手承认了自己的犯罪。
  Xiōngshǒu chéngrèn le zìjǐ de fànzuì.
  The murderer confessed his crime.
• 园丁后来发现就是凶手。
  Yuándīng hòulái fāxiàn jiù shì xiōngshǒu.
  The gardener turned out to be the murderer.
• 他对杀父凶手进行了报复。
  Tā duì shā fù xiōngshǒu jìnxíng le bàofù.
  He avenged the murder of his father.
• 他是个凶手，应该进到牢里。
  He is a killer, he should be behind bars!

Where 凶手 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiōng–xū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiōng shǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.