殺
殺 — sal, swae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 죽일 살, 감할/빠를 쇄
- Romanization
- sal, swae
- English
- kill, slaughter, murder; hurt; to pare off, reduce, clip
- Mandarin
- shā
- Japanese on'yomi
- サツ, サイ, セツ, セイ, シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ころ.す -ごろ.し そ.ぐ あや.める
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #581 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Variant forms
- 煞
- Radical
- 殳 (79, 7 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6BBA
How 殺 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 殺 as a ideographic compound involving 人, 又.
Korean example words with 殺
- 포살捕殺 Korean gloss: 잡아 죽임
- 생살生殺 Korean gloss: 살리고 죽임
- 피살被殺 Korean gloss: 죽임을 당함
- 교살絞殺 Korean gloss: 목을 졸라 죽임
- 법살法殺 Korean gloss: 법에 의한 살인
- 살기殺氣 Korean gloss: 독살스러운 기운
- 암살暗殺 Korean gloss: 몰래 사람을 죽임
- 육살戮殺 Korean gloss: 사람을 마구 죽임
- 살년殺年 Korean gloss: 크게 흉년이 든 해
- 살성殺聲 Korean gloss: 소름이 끼치는 소리
- 살충殺蟲 Korean gloss: 벌레나 해충을 죽임
- 대살代殺 Korean gloss: 살인자를 사형에 처함
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 殺
- 殺人さつじん murder; homicide; manslaughter
- 殺すころす to kill; to slay; to murder
- 自殺じさつ suicide
- 暗殺あんさつ assassination
- 虐殺ぎゃくさつ slaughter; massacre
- 殺害さつがい killing; murder
- 併殺へいさつ double play
- 殺しころし murder; killing; murderer
- 射殺しゃさつ shooting to death
- 殺虫剤さっちゅうざい insecticide; pesticide
- 殺菌さっきん sterilization; sterilisation; disinfection
- 殺傷さっしょう killing and wounding; bloodshed
Other hanja read “살”
Other hanja with radical 殳
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