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殺 kanji
kill, murder, butcher, slice off, split, diminish, reduce, spoil
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
サツサイセツ
Kun readings
ころす-ごろしそぐあやめる
Variant forms
煞殺Words with 殺
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —猟奇殺人鬼ghoulish murderer; grotesque killer
- —通り魔殺人random murder; spree killing; indiscriminate killing
- —飛び込み自殺committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train
- —飛び降り自殺suicide by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
- —ルワンダ虐殺Rwandan genocide (1994)
- —ケネディ暗殺assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963); JFK assassination
- —沈黙の殺人者silent killer
- —殺人ロボットkiller robot; lethal autonomous weapon; LAWS
- —バラバラ殺人dismemberment murder; dismemberment killing
- —連続殺人事件serial murder case
- —猟奇殺人事件bizarre murder case
- —連続猟奇殺人serial bizarre murders
- —医師自殺幇助physician-assisted suicide; PAS
- —十角館の殺人The Decagon House Murders (1987 novel by Yukito Ayatsuji)
- —言論を封殺するto suppress the freedom of speech
- —無差別大量殺人indiscriminate mass murder
- —占星術殺人事件The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (1981 novel by Soji Shimada)
- —ソンミ村虐殺事件My Lai Massacre (1968); Son My Massacre
- —高温短時間殺菌法high temperature short time sterilization method; HTST; flash pasteurization
- —連続猟奇殺人事件serial bizarre murder case