KoreanParticles

殺 hanja, meaning kill, read 살 (sal)

Reading

살sal

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

Vocabulary

Words that use 殺

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

殺氣살기salgi

murderous air, menace

Character by character kill + air

殺죽일 살kill氣기운 기air

Radical ⽎ · 79

Built on the same root.

段단 dan층계 단section殿전 jeon전각 전hall毁훼 hwe헐 훼destroy

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.