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掺
JLPT N3 SL5 10 strokes Frequency: #581

Meanings

Kill, Murder, Butcher, Slice Off, Split, Diminish, Reduce, Spoil

Radicals

掳

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)
殺人罪 さつじんざい

(the crime of) murder

低温殺菌 ていおんさっきん

low-temperature pasteurization

女殺し おんなごろし

ladykiller

男殺し おとこごろし

temptress

惨殺者 ざんさつしゃ

brutal murderer

薬殺 やくさつ

killing by poison

はめ殺し はめごろし

fixed fitting (esp. window)

飼い殺し かいごろし

keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life

射殺す いころす

to shoot dead (with an arrow)

殺気立つ さっきだつ

to be seething (with anger)

盛り殺す もりころす

to poison to death

暗殺を謀る あんさつをはかる

to plot an assassination

感情を殺す かんじょうをころす

to suppress one's emotions

殺人犯 さつじんはん

murderer

殺人狂 さつじんきょう

homicidal maniac

自殺を図る じさつをはかる

to attempt suicide

第一級殺人 だいいっきゅうさつじん

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

忙殺される ぼうさつされる

to be very busily occupied

幼児殺し ようじごろし

infanticide

殴殺 おうさつ

beating to death