Read Edit View history 杀生 shāshēng to kill living beings Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 杀生 殺生 shā//shēng to kill living beings to take the life of a living creature; to slaughter animals killing the act of taking life, particularly as one of the Five Precepts 五戒 wǔjiè in Buddhism which forbids killing sentient beings Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.844 per million Cross-References See 五戒 wǔjiè Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
杀生 殺生 shā//shēng to kill living beings to take the life of a living creature; to slaughter animals killing the act of taking life, particularly as one of the Five Precepts 五戒 wǔjiè in Buddhism which forbids killing sentient beings Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.844 per million Cross-References See 五戒 wǔjiè Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)