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殺

JLPT N3 SL5 10 strokes Frequency: #581

Meanings

Kill, Murder, Butcher, Slice Off, Split, Diminish, Reduce, Spoil

Radicals

殳

Decomposition

⿰杀殳

Etymology

Pictophonetic: weapon

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 dot bottom-left-to-top-right

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

5 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

7 diagonal right-to-left

8 corner right-to-left

9 corner top-to-bottom

10 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

セツ setsu

サツ satsu

サイ sai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

そ so

ころ koro

Words Using This Kanji

273 words total

Other (20 words)

disinfectant

sterilizer

bactericidal action

to muffle one's voice

ケネディ大統領暗殺事件ケネディだいとうりょうあんさつじけん

assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963)

加熱殺菌かねつさっきん

heat sterilization

高温短時間殺菌法こうおんたんじかんさっきんほう

high temperature short time sterilization method

蛇の生殺しへびのなまごろし

state of uncertainty

捨て殺しすてごろし

letting someone die without helping

鬼殺しおにころし

strong sake

大量殺害たいりょうさつがい

mass-killing

いじめ自殺いじめじさつ

suicide caused by bullying or harassment

ルワンダ虐殺ルワンダぎゃくさつ

Rwandan genocide (1994)

way of murdering

life-taking sword

(killing) sword

spermicide

spermicide

assist

suicide brought on by excessive overwork

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