How to say "genocide" in Japanese

• ジェノサイドCommon
  nounThe direct equivalent of 'genocide' and the common word for the crime: the intended destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as in news reports, legal discussion, and historical writing.
• 大虐殺だいぎゃくさつ
  nounPrimarily 'massacre' or 'mass slaughter': an act of killing of enormous scale. Its 'genocide' sense is loose and descriptive, fitting historical accounts of atrocities more than the strictly defined crime.
• 大量虐殺たいりょうぎゃくさつ
  nounMeans 'mass slaughter', stressing the sheer number of victims; it renders 'genocide' descriptively, as in reporting on mass killings in a conflict, rather than naming the crime itself.
• 集団殺害しゅうだんさつがい
  nounLiterally 'killing of a group', a plain descriptive term for mass killing; it can translate 'genocide', but it states the fact of the killings rather than naming the crime.

「ジェノサイド」, the common direct equivalent, is the word for genocide as a crime; the three less common compounds translate it descriptively as large-scale massacre or mass killing.

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• ジェノサイドgenocide
• 大虐殺だいぎゃくさつmassacre
• 大量虐殺たいりょうぎゃくさつmassacre
• 集団殺害しゅうだんさつがいmass killing