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生杀予夺

shēng shā yǔ duó

4-character word Traditional 生殺予奪

What 生杀予夺 means

1. (lit.) to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom)
2. (fig.) control over the fate of others

The characters in 生杀予夺

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart
• 予yǔ(literary) to give
• 夺duóto seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of