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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
- —入水自殺suicide by drowning
- —強盗殺人robbery and murder; murder during robbery
- —名誉殺人honor killing; honour killing
- —国王殺害regicide
- —自殺予防suicide prevention
- —猟奇殺人bizarre murder; grotesque murder
- —標的殺害targeted killing
- —介護殺人killing by caregivers; caretaker homicide; nursing care killing
- —ガス自殺gas suicide; suicide by inhalation of gas
- —練炭自殺charcoal-burning suicide
- —承諾殺人consensual homicide (propositioned by the killer)
- —交換殺人murder swap; murder exchange; murder of each other's targets by co-conspirators
- —同意殺人consensual homicide; murder with consent of the victim
- —童謡殺人nursery rhyme murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)
- —密室殺人locked-room murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)
- —快楽殺人murder for pleasure; lust murder
- —切迫屠殺immediate sacrifice (esp. laboratory animals); emergency slaughter
- —自殺願望suicidal tendency; suicidal wish
- —高温殺菌high-temperature sterilization
- —殺人兵器lethal weapon; deadly device