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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)
誘殺 ゆうさつ

seduction and killing

挟殺 きょうさつ

rundown

暗剣殺 あんけんさつ

unpropitious direction

暗殺未遂 あんさつみすい

attempted assassination

故殺 こさつ

(voluntary) manslaughter

暗殺者 あんさつしゃ

assassin

飛び込み自殺 とびこみじさつ

committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

嘱託殺人 しょくたくさつじん

murder at the victim's request

尊属殺人 そんぞくさつじん

parricide

取り殺す とりころす

to haunt to death

狂言自殺 きょうげんじさつ

faked suicide

密殺 みっさつ

secret butchery

笑殺 しょうさつ

laughing off

活殺自在 かっさつじざい

the power of life or death

活殺 かっさつ

life or death

相殺関税 そうさいかんぜい

countervailing duty

殺害者 さつがいしゃ

murderer

殺生禁断 せっしょうきんだん

prohibition against hunting and fishing

殺菌剤 さっきんざい

disinfectant

殴殺 おうさつ

beating to death

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