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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
- —放火殺人murder-arson
- —幼児虐殺Massacre of the Innocents (infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament)
- —一殺多生it is justifiable to kill one person to save the lives of many
- —厭世自殺killing oneself out of despair (for life)
- —矯角殺牛trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; the cure is worse than the disease
- —集団自殺group suicide; mass suicide; arranged suicide of two or more people
- —集合自殺group suicide; mass suicide; arranged suicide of two or more people
- —自殺行為suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action
- —殺人光線death ray
- —服毒自殺poison suicide; suicide by poisoning
- —絞殺死体body of a strangled person
- —殺菌消毒sterilizing
- —殺菌作用bactericidal action; germicidal action
- —加熱殺菌heat sterilization
- —投身自殺suicide by throwing oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death
- —大量殺害mass-killing; mass-murder; bloodbath
- —殺精子剤spermicide; spermatocide
- —殺精子薬spermicide; spermatocide
- —民衆殺戮democide
- —過労自殺suicide brought on by excessive overwork