宰

to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

surname Xin

(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa

to dominate / to rule / to dictate / master

to get trampled on (idiom) / to be taken advantage of

to slaughter / (fig.) to ride roughshod over / to take advantage of (others)

Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius

Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures

to overcharge / to rip sb off

to rule / to dominate

to cheat customers / to overcharge

ruler

(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)