誅

to put (a criminal) to death / to punish

surname Zhu

vermilion

cinnabar / see 硃砂|朱砂[zhu1 sha1]

words / speech / to say / to talk

cinnabar

to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom) / to denounce by word and pen

to be executed

heavenly punishment / king's punishment

Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首[Tang2 shi1 San1 bai3 Shou3] / also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士[Heng2 tang2 Tui4 shi4]

to die by battle-ax (idiom); to be executed

to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)

steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])

steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])

to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)

to criticize sb for what one believes to be their ulterior motive

a devastating criticism / to expose hidden motives

to put to death

to wipe out the villains (e.g. insurgents, or people of another race)

to kill / to murder

exorbitant demands / demanding with menaces / extortion

incessant exorbitant demands

to make endless exorbitant demands

to kill and banish

to wipe out / to exterminate

Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.