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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 (13 words)

殺害現場さつがいげんば

scene of a murder

銃殺刑じゅうさつけい

execution by a firing squad

国際自殺防止協会こくさいじさつぼうしきょうかい

International Association for Suicide Prevention

殺生丸せっしょうまる

Sesshomaru (character in the anime Inuyasha)

女殺油地獄おんなころしあぶらのじごく

The Woman-Killer (bunraku play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon)

オリエント急行殺人事件オリエントきゅうこうさつじんじけん

Murder on the Orient Express (1934 detective novel by Agatha Christie)

占星術殺人事件せんせいじゅつさつじんじけん

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (1981 novel by Soji Shimada)

十角館の殺人じゅっかくかんのさつじん

The Decagon House Murders (1987 novel by Yukito Ayatsuji)

to beat to death

to crush to death

assassination

crushing to death

assassination

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