杀

殺traditional

HSK 6#557 by frequencyradical 木

shā["v"]

to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely

Examples

杀我吧。

Kill me.

杀汤姆。

Kill Tom.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.