Meanings
Kill, Murder, Butcher, Slice Off, Split, Diminish, Reduce, Spoil
Radicals
Decomposition
โฟฐๆๆฎณ
Etymology
Pictophonetic: weapon
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
Words Using This Kanji
273 words totalultra-high-temperature processing
high-temperature sterilization
lethal weapon
Nanking Massacre (1937)
(credible) death threat
mass killing
lethality (of a weapon, etc.)
to beat to death
to crush with one's fingers (an insect, etc.)
regicide
regicide
deicide
person contemplating suicide
precept forbidding the taking of life
precept forbidding the taking of life
demon
dismemberment murder
preannounced murder
serial murder case
three-year period of bad luck (in rokusei senjutsu fortune-telling)