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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)

悩殺のうさつ

fascinate

半殺しはんごろし

half killed

必殺ひっさつ

bringing certain death

封殺ふうさつ

suppression (e.g. of free speech)

併殺へいさつ

double play

褒め殺すほめごろす

to compliment and criticize lavishly (criticise)

褒め殺しほめごろし

mockery by means of excessive praise

beat to death

erasure

racial genocide

ignoring

serial murders

to strangle to death

to kill by running over

to shoot dead

premeditated murder

catching and killing

being extremely busy

to kill

beating to death

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