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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)

気配を殺すけはいをころす

to erase all trace of something

爆殺ばくさつ

killing with a bomb

電撃殺虫器でんげきさっちゅうき

electric bug killer

角を矯めて牛を殺すつのをためてうしをころす

to throw the baby out with the bath water

炭素相殺たんそそうさい

carbon offset

殺し場ころしば

murder scene (in kabuki, etc.)

弟殺しおとうとごろし

killing a younger brother

歳殺さいせつ

Saisetsu

生殺せいさつ

sparing life and taking life

小の虫を殺して大の虫を助けるしょうのむしをころしてだいのむしをたすける

to sacrifice something small in order to save something great

大の虫を生かして小の虫を殺すだいのむしをいかしてしょうのむしをころす

sacrifice something small in order to save something great

大の虫を生かして小の虫を殺せだいのむしをいかしてしょうのむしをころせ

sacrifice something small in order to save something great

寸鉄人を殺すすんてつひとをころす

to make a cutting remark

ソンミ村虐殺事件ソンミむらぎゃくさつじけん

My Lai Massacre (1968)

服毒自殺ふくどくじさつ

poison suicide

絞殺死体こうさつしたい

body of a strangled person

to kill each other

serial killer

murder victim

sterilizing

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