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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)

自殺点じさつてん

own goal

殺菌灯さっきんとう

germicidal lamp

天中殺てんちゅうさつ

inauspicious time in four pillar astrology

clearance store

patricide

patricide

light trap

suicide by drowning

deadly fist

crime of preparing to commit homicide

lethality

robbery and murder

robbery and murder

honor killing

honor killing

fixed window

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

干し殺すほしころす

to starve (someone) to death

国王殺害こくおうさつがい

regicide

自殺予防じさつよぼう

suicide prevention

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