殺 — Chinese character
殺
shā
to kill, to murder, to slaughter; to hurt
- Pinyin
- shā
- Radical
- 79 ⽎ (Weapon)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 杀 殳
- Formation
- pictophonetic — weapon; meaning component 殳; sound component 杀
- Simplified
- 杀
- Japanese
- 殺 as a kanji
殺 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 9 · Analects 9 · Art of War 6 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 53 · Zhuangzi 48 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 31
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 73
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 74
- Analects 10.6
- Analects 12.19
- Analects 13.11
- Analects 14.17
- Analects 14.18
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