煞
shāshà

malignant deity

煞 shā frequency
to stop verb
to bring to an end; to stop; to terminate; to cut short

汽车尖叫一声煞住了。

qì​chē jiān​jiào yī​shēng shā zhù le.

The car screeched to a stop.

to tighten
to squeeze or tighten; to pull a rope or belt tight
to damage
to damage or weaken
to kill
(dialect) to kill; to slay; to murder; also used in some contexts to mean a stinging or smarting pain
extremely
suffix used after a verb or adjective to indicate a high degree
煞 shà
evil spirit
an evil spirit or demon; a fiend
very
adverb used before an adjective or verb to indicate a high degree
SARS
(Taiwan) a loanword for SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
what
(literary) what; how; used as a question pronoun, equivalent to 什么 shén​me

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,280th most common 25.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,889th most common 4.12 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.13 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
12.5 per million

Details
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+715E

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