Kanji1 / 10
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
- —国際自殺防止協会International Association for Suicide Prevention
- —秋葉原無差別殺傷事件Akihabara massacre (June 8, 2008)
- —ケネディ大統領暗殺事件assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963); JFK assassination
- —オリエント急行殺人事件Murder on the Orient Express (1934 detective novel by Agatha Christie)
- —殺倒rush; flood; deluge
- —と殺slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
- —堵殺slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
- —おう殺massacre; extermination
- —殺りくslaughter; massacre
- —れき殺killing by running over (with a car or train)
- —飛込自殺committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train
- —殺気だつto be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
- —飛降自殺suicide by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
- —苛め自殺suicide caused by bullying or harassment; bullying-related suicide
- —見立殺人mitate satsujin; murder done in a way that alludes to something such as a nursery rhyme or a legend (esp. in crime fiction)
- —飛込み自殺committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train
- —自殺ほう助(the crime of) aiding and abetting a suicide
- —第１級殺人first-degree murder (in US, etc. law)
- —飛降り自殺suicide by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
- —首つり自殺suicide by hanging