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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
- —殺人犯murderer
- —必殺技killer technique; surefire assassination method; special or lethal move, usu. one unique to a certain fighter or fighting style
- —殺処分culling; putting down; slaughtering; killing
- —屠殺人butcher; slaughterhouse worker
- —殺人課homicide department (of a police force)
- —慈悲殺mercy killing (euthanasia performed to end someone's suffering, but without consent)
- —他殺体murder victim; body of a murder victim
- —殺人剣life-taking sword; sword used to kill
- —殺人刀(killing) sword; blade; steel
- —自殺点own goal
- —殺菌灯germicidal lamp
- —天中殺inauspicious time in four pillar astrology
- —殺虫灯light trap; electric insect killer; bug zapper
- —暗殺拳deadly fist; killer fist
- —殺傷力lethality; killing effectiveness
- —尊属殺parricide
- —大殺界three-year period of bad luck (in rokusei senjutsu fortune-telling)
- —銃殺刑execution by a firing squad
- —非殺傷non-lethal (e.g. weapon); non-fatal
- —扼殺痕manual strangulation mark; throttling mark