殺 (shā)
to kill; to murder
How 殺 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 乂 — N/A
- Traditional
- 殺
- Simplified
- 杀
Common words using 殺
- 殺人 shārén
- homicide; to murder; to kill (a person)
- 殺戮 shālù
- massacre; slaughter
- 殺手 shāshǒu
- killer; murderer; hit man
- 秒殺 miǎoshā
- (Internet) flash sale; (sports or online gaming) rapid dispatch of an opponent
- 自殺 zìshā
- to kill oneself; to commit suicide
- 謀殺案 móushāàn
- murder case
- 借刀殺人 jièdāoshārén
- to lend sb a knife to kill sb; to get sb else to do one's dirty work; to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
- 封殺 fēngshā
- to shut out; to block; to smother
- 屠殺 túshā
- to massacre; massacre; bloodbath
- 廝殺 sīshā
- to fight at close quarters; hand-to-hand
- 扼殺 èshā
- to strangle; to throttle
- 抹殺 mǒshā
- to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence
殺 in a sentence
他買了一罐殺蟲劑來殺蟑螂。
Tā mǎi le yí guàn shāchóngjì lái shā zhāngláng.
“He bought a can of insecticide to kill cockroaches.”
How common is 殺?
殺 is the 587th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 79.2% of all running text.
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