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Chinese symbol for “roadkill”

路杀
lù shā
Traditional: 路殺
roadkill; death of animals caused by vehicle collisions

The closest CC-CEDICT match for roadkill is 路杀 (lù shā), defined as: roadkill; death of animals caused by vehicle collisions.

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Characters and stroke order

路 lù
road, path, street; journey
radical 157 ⾜ · 13 strokes
杀 shā
to kill, to murder, to slaughter; to hurt
radical 75 ⽊ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 路杀.

WordPinyinMeaning
铁路 (鐵路)tiě lùrailroad; railway
道路dào lùroad; path
路线 (路線)lù xiànitinerary; route
公路gōng lùhighway; road
路上lù shangon the road; on the way; en route
一路yī lùthe whole journey; all the way
自杀 (自殺)zì shāto kill oneself; to commit suicide
杀人 (殺人)shā rénto kill a person; to commit murder

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.