Reading
Also read 쇄 (swae)
kill, slaughter, murder; hurt; to pare off, reduce, clip
죽일 살jugil sal
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 죽일 (jugil) is the Korean for kill, and 살 (sal) is the reading. Say 죽일 살 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⽎ 79
- Beyond radical
- 7
- Mandarin
- shā
- Japanese on
- satsu
- Japanese kun
- korosu
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.