杀
shāshài HSK5

kill

杀 殺 shā frequency
to kill verb
to kill, slay, or murder; to slaughter animals

你杀了我妈妈。

nǐ shā le wǒ mā​ma.

You killed my mother.

我们不能杀任何人。

wǒ​men bù​néng shā rèn​hé rén.

We can't kill anyone.

to fight
to fight, battle, or go into combat
to reduce
to reduce, weaken, or counteract; to lower a price
to smart
(colloquial) to smart or sting, as when medicine or chemicals irritate a wound
[extremely]
used after a verb or adjective to indicate an extreme degree; this use is now more commonly written as 煞 shà
to spoil
to spoil, dampen, or dampen (one's spirits or the atmosphere), often as in 杀风景 shā​fēng​jǐng
杀 殺 shài
to decrease
(literary) to decrease, reduce, or diminish
grade
(literary) a grade, difference, or hierarchy, as in social or family relations

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
587th most common 355.4 per million
Movie subtitles
174th most common 1006.0 per million appears in 79% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
697.7 per million appears in 68% of films
Written text
136.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
殺
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6740

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)