Chinese Character Wiki
殺

shā

kill

Depicts a person being decapitated (杀) with a weapon (殳).

Components
杀 iconic component

杀  Iconic component

shā

  

kill

Depicts a person being decapitated.

殳 iconic component

殳  Iconic component

shū

  

weapon or tool

Evolution

殺 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
殺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殺 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
殺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

杀 (殺) 

shā

kill, slaughter, murder; hurt; to pare off, reduce, clip; to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely

Most common words with 殺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

杀

to kill

自杀

to kill oneself

杀人

homicide

杀死

to kill

杀手

killer

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

鎩

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s<r>at

sreat

shā

kill

*s<r>at-s

sreajH

shài

diminish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 79.4810% of movies

174th most common character in movies

587th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

杀

Unicode

U+6BBA

Shuowen

“殺，戮也。从殳，杀聲。，古文殺；，古文殺；，古文殺。”


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