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Chinese symbol for “suicidal”

自杀式
zì shā shì
Traditional: 自殺式
suicide (attack); suicidal

The closest CC-CEDICT match for suicidal is 自杀式 (zì shā shì), defined as: suicide (attack); suicidal.

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Characters and stroke order

自 zì
self; private, personal; from
radical 132 ⾃ · 6 strokes
杀 shā
to kill, to murder, to slaughter; to hurt
radical 75 ⽊ · 6 strokes
式 shì
formula, pattern, rule, style, system
radical 56 ⼷ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 自杀式.

WordPinyinMeaning
自己zì jǐoneself; (attributive) one's own
自由zì yóufreedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
来自 (來自)lái zìto come from (a place); From: (in email header)
自然zì ránnature; natural
自动 (自動)zì dòngautomatic; voluntarily
自身zì shēnitself; oneself
自杀 (自殺)zì shāto kill oneself; to commit suicide
杀人 (殺人)shā rénto kill a person; to commit murder
方式fāng shìway; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); 种 (zhǒng)

See also: Japanese symbol for “suicidal”.

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.