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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
- —南京虐殺Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
- —殺害予告(credible) death threat
- —集団殺害mass killing; genocide
- —殺傷能力lethality (of a weapon, etc.)
- —文化殺戮cultural cleansing; ethnocide
- —殺害現場scene of a murder; murder scene
- —予告殺人preannounced murder; murder with prior warning
- —殺傷事件incident involving killing and wounding; attack resulting in casualties
- —強姦殺人rape and murder; murder following rape
- —他殺死体murder victim; body of a murder victim
- —自殺教唆(crime of) instigation to suicide
- —殺人教唆instigating murder; incitement to murder
- —殺人幇助aiding and abetting murder; being an accessory to murder
- —惨殺死体mutilated corpse; mangled body
- —一人一殺killing one by one (terrorist slogan and strategy)
- —後追い自殺following someone's example, and committing suicide
- —民族大虐殺racial genocide
- —暗殺を謀るto plot an assassination
- —自殺を図るto attempt suicide
- —第一級殺人first-degree murder (in US, etc. law)