殺

• In traditional Chinese (based on the modern character forms used in Taiwan and Hong Kong), the bottom left component is 朮 (𣎳 with an additional dot at its top right corner).
• In mainland China (based on the Xin Zixing (新字形) standardized character forms), the bottom left component is 朩 instead which is one stroke less.
• In Korean hanja, the bottom left component is 术, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In Japanese shinjitai and Vietnamese Nôm, the bottom left component is 木 which is one stroke less.
• Three CJK Compatibility Ideographs exist for this character:
  • U+F970 corresponds to the Japanese kyūjitai form containing 术 which is similar to the historical Kangxi form.
  • U+FA96 corresponds to the alternative Korean form which is similar to the Japanese shinjitai form containing 木.
  • U+2F8F5 is similar to the traditional form in Taiwan but has 𣎳 (without dot at top right corner) instead of 朮 as its bottom left component.

殺 (radical 79, 殳+7 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 殳+6 in mainland China and Japanese, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 大金竹弓水 (KCHNE) or 大木竹弓水 (KDHNE), four-corner 4794₇, composition ⿰⿱㐅朩殳(G) or ⿰⿱㐅朮殳(HT) or ⿰⿱㐅木殳(JV or U+FA96) or ⿰⿱㐅术殳(K or U+F970).⿰⿱㐅𣎳殳(U+2F8F5))

• 杀 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 585, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16638
• Dae Jaweon: page 978, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2157, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6BBA

• Unihan data for U+F970

• Unihan data for U+FA96

• Unihan data for U+2F8F5

In the oracle bone script, it was an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 戈 (“spear”) + [Term?] (“hair”) – a man impaled in the head.

In the bronze script, 人 (“man”) was added under the hair to accentuate the killing of the man. In some bronze inscriptions, 殳 (“spear”) or 攴 was used in place of 戈.

In the bamboo and silk script, symbol representing the man being killed corrupted into 杀: 乂 (“weapon for killing”) + 𣎳. The seal script inherits this: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sreːds, *sreːd) : phonetic 𣏂 + semantic 殳 (“spear”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/b-sat.

殺

1. to kill; to murder
2. to hurt

• Normally, the subject of 殺 should at least be alive. The sentence "A tiger killed many people." can be validly translated as 老虎殺死數人, while the sentence "This accident killed many people." is seldom translated as *這次事故殺死數人. For death caused by non-living things, split forms of 致死 (zhìsǐ) are often used instead:

  這次事故致數人死亡。 [MSC, trad.]
  这次事故致数人死亡。 [MSC, simp.]

  Zhè cì shìgù zhì shù rén sǐwáng. [Pinyin]

  This accident caused many people's death.

From 衰 (OC *sʰrol, *srul, “to diminish; to decay”) + final *-t (Schuessler, 2007).

殺

1. to pare off; to diminish; to reduce; to clip

   隆殺之義辨矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   隆杀之义辨矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: 荀子, 《樂論》

   Lóngshā zhī yì biàn yǐ. [Pinyin]

   The principle of increase and dimunution (of sumptuary allowances) is defined.

殺

1. dark
2. Alternative form of 𥻦 (“to spread; to exile”).

殺

1. Only used in 蹩殺／蹩杀.

殺

1. Only used in 降殺／降杀.

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to kill

• Go-on: せい (sei); せち (sechi); せつ (setsu, Jōyō, uncommon)
• Kan-on: さい (sai, Jōyō, uncommon); さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ころす (korosu, 殺す, Jōyō); そぐ (sogu, 殺ぐ)

殺 • (sal, soe) (hangeul 살, 쇠, McCune–Reischauer sal, soe, Yale sal, soy)

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殺 (sát, sái, sít, sịt, sướt, sét, sượt)

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