殺 U+F970,殺 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F970 ←說 [U+F96F] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 辰 → [U+F971]

殺 U+2F8F5,殺 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8F5 ←殟 [U+2F8F4] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 殻 → [U+2F8F6]

• Intraditional Chinese (based on the modern character forms used inTaiwan andHong Kong), the bottom left component is朮 (𣎳 with an additional dot at its top right corner).
• In mainland China (based on theXin Zixing (新字形) standardized character forms), the bottom left component is朩 instead which is one stroke less.
• In Koreanhanja, the bottom left component is术, which is also the historical form found in theKangxi dictionary.
• In Japaneseshinjitai and VietnameseNôm, the bottom left component is木 which is one stroke less.
• ThreeCJK Compatibility Ideographs exist for this character:
  • U+F970 corresponds to the Japanesekyūjitai form containing术 which is similar to the historical Kangxi form.
  • U+FA96 corresponds to the alternative Korean form which is similar to the Japaneseshinjitai 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 (Kangxi radical 79,殳+7in traditional Chinese and Korean, 殳+6in mainland China and Japanese, 11 strokesin traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokesin mainland China and Japanese,cangjie input大金竹弓水 (KCHNE) or大木竹弓水 (KDHNE),four-corner4794₇,composition⿰⿱㐅朩殳(G) or⿰⿱㐅朮殳(HT) or⿰⿱㐅木殳(JV orU+FA96) or⿰⿱㐅术殳(K orU+F970) or⿰⿱㐅𣎳殳(U+2F8F5))

• 杀(Simplified Chinese)

• 摋,樧/榝,䊛,鎩,蔱

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 585, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16638
• Dae Jaweon: page 978, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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

Historical forms of the character殺
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

In the oracle bone script, it was an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) of a boar that had been impaled in the head.

In the seal script, the original compound was corrupted into𣏂 (sometimes written as杀). It was also in the seal script that the pictogram (象形):人(“person”) +又(“right hand”), which was later corrupted into殳 (“spear”) or攴, was added under the head of the boar to specify the killing was done by a person.

The modern-day character inherits this and can be thought of as aphono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sreːds, *sreːd): phonetic𣏂 + semantic殳(“spear”).

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*g/b-sat(“to kill”); compareTibetanབསད(bsad), perfect ofTibetanགསོད(gsod,“to kill”),Proto-Lolo-Burmese*C-sat(“to kill”),Japhugsat(“to kill”) (STEDT;Schuessler, 2007;Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019).

殺

1. (transitive) tokill; tomurder

   我殺咗隻烏蠅。[Cantonese,trad.]
   我杀咗只乌蝇。[Cantonese,simp.]

   ngo⁵saat³ zo² zek³ wu¹ jing^4-1.[Jyutping]

   Ikilled a fly.

2. toruin; toharm
3. tofight

   殺出一條血路／杀出一条血路  ― shā chū yī tiáo xuèlù  ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (dialectal,transitive) tocut; toslice (fruit, food)

   殺西瓜／杀西瓜  ― shā xīguā  ―  tocut a watermelon

5. (transitive) toabate; toreduce

   殺價／杀价  ― shājià  ―  to bargain

6. (regional,colloquial) tosting
7. (chess) tomate;short for將殺／将杀 (jiāngshā) ("tocheckmate")
8. (Hokkien)ruthless;ferocious;fierce
9. (Hokkien) tobutcher, especially byusing ablade todrain itsblood todeath(of animals)

   殺雞／杀鸡[Hokkien]  ― soah koe[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to butcher a chicken by draining its blood with a knife

10. (Taiwanese Hokkien)willing topart with something

• Normally, the subject of殺 should beanimate. 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 shìgùzhì shù rénsǐwáng.[Pinyin]

  This accidentcaused many people'sdeaths.

• (to kill):

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

殺

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) topare off; todiminish; toreduce; toclip

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

     From:Xunzi,c. 3^rd centuryBCE

     Lóngshā zhī yì biàn yǐ.[Pinyin]

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

殺

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)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

• “殺”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–

Shinjitai	殺
Kyūjitai [1][2]	殺 殺 or 殺+︀?
	殺󠄀 殺+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	殺󠄃 殺+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji,kyūjitai form殺)

1. tokill

FromMiddle Chinese殺 (MC sreat):

• Go-on:せち(sechi)、せつ(setsu,Jōyō^†)
• Kan-on:さつ(satsu,Jōyō)

FromMiddle Chinese殺 (MC sreajH):

• Go-on:せい(sei)
• Kan-on:さい(sai,Jōyō^†)
• Kan’yō-on:さつ(satsu,Jōyō)

From nativeJapanese roots:

• Kun:ころす(korosu,殺す,Jōyō)、あやめる(ayameru,殺める)、そぐ(sogu,殺ぐ)、へらす(herasu,殺らす)

FromMiddle Chinese殺 (MC sreat).

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[sʰa̠ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul:[살]

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

殺

Wikisource

殺 (eumhun죽일살(jugil sal))

1. hanja form^? of살(“tokill”)