宰 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zǎi ㄗㄞˇ to slaughter to butcher to kill (animals etc) to fleece to rip off to overcharge coll. to govern to rule bound form (a title for certain government officials in ancient China) bound form Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT