偿命 (償命) chángmìng

chángmìng verb to repay with one's life
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Of a murderer to pay for the crime with his life (CC-CEDICT '償命'; Guoyu '償命'; Mathews 1931 '償命', p. 26)

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 1 Shizi Su Duo Wang Duan Rou Jing師子素馱娑王斷肉經 — count: 2
• Scroll 3 Jin Guangming Jing Wen Ju 金光明經文句 — count: 1
• Scroll 14 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 6 Wei Mo Jing Lue Shu Chui Yu Ji 維摩經略疏垂裕記 — count: 1
• Scroll 3 Jin Guangming Jing Wen Ju Ji 金光明經文句記 — count: 1
• Scroll 4 Zhi Guan Fu Xing Chuan Hong Jue 止觀輔行傳弘決 — count: 1
• Scroll 4 The Great Calming and Contemplation (Mohe Zhi Guan) 摩訶止觀 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 25 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 1

Collocations

• 偿命犹在 (償命猶在) 而償命猶在 — Jin Guangming Jing Wen Ju 金光明經文句, Scroll 3 — count: 2