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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)

足音を殺してあしおとをころして

with hushed footsteps

猟奇殺人りょうきさつじん

bizarre murder

不殺生ふせっしょう

ahimsa

介護殺人かいごさつじん

killing by caregivers

parricide

silent killer

gas suicide

charcoal-burning suicide

consensual homicide

killer robot

mitate satsujin

consensual homicide (propositioned by the killer)

童謡殺人どうようさつじん

nursery rhyme murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)

第二級殺人だいにきゅうさつじん

second-degree murder (in US, etc. law)

密室殺人みっしつさつじん

locked-room murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)

murder swap

lust killer

murder for pleasure

suicidal tendency

comparative negligence

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