prisoner of war

to capture; to take prisoner; (old) northern barbarian; slave

tiger stripes (虍) + force (力) = prisoner taken by force

力 conveys the force used to subdue and capture someone. 虍 primarily lends the sound lǔ; the image of a tiger's stripes may have evoked raw predatory power, but its role here is phonetic.

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StrengthSemantic
Tiger stripesPhonetic

战争结束后,士兵们把敌军的俘关了起来。

zhàn zhēng jié shù hòu, shì bīng men bǎ dí jūn de fú lǔ guān le qǐ lái。

after the war ended, the soldiers locked up the enemy's prisoners of war.

将军命令部队生敌方的指挥官,不得伤害他。

jiāng jūn mìng lìng bù duì shēng lǔ dí fāng de zhǐ huī guān, bù dé shāng hài tā。

the general ordered the troops to capture the enemy commander alive, without harming him.

Words with 虏

臣虏

chén lǔ

slave

驱除鞑虏

qū chú dá lǔ

expel the Manchu, revolutionary slogan from around 1900

亡国虏

wáng guó lǔ

subjugated people

俘虏

fú lǔ

captive

克虏伯

kè lǔ bó

Krupp

捕虏岩

bǔ lǔ yán

xenolith (geology)

鞑虏

dá lǔ

also used as an insulting term for Manchus around 1900

蒂森克虏伯

dì sēn kè lǔ bó

ThyssenKrupp

虏获

lǔ huò

capture (people)

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