Chinese symbol for “terminate”
煞
shā
to terminate; to cut short; to bring to a stop; to squeeze
The closest CC-CEDICT match for terminate is 煞 (shā), defined as: to terminate; to cut short; to bring to a stop; to squeeze; to tighten; to damage.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “terminate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 终止 (終止) | zhōng zhǐ | to stop; to terminate |
| 停办 (停辦) | tíng bàn | to shut down; to terminate |
| 终结 (終結) | zhōng jié | end; conclusion; to come to an end; to terminate (sth) |
| 停服 | tíng fú | to shut down a server; (of a service) to terminate; to stop taking (a medicine) |
| 腰斩 (腰斬) | yāo zhǎn | to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment); to cut sth in half |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 煞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 煞车 (煞車) | shā chē | to brake (when driving) |
| 抹煞 | mǒ shā | variant of 抹杀 (mǒ shā) |
| 煞气 (煞氣) | shā qì | to vent one's anger on (an innocent party); to take it out on (sb) |
| 煞费苦心 (煞費苦心) | shà fèi kǔ xīn | to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking; at the cost of a lot of effort |
| 凶神恶煞 (兇神惡煞) | xiōng shén è shà | (idiom) fiends; devils; monsters |
See also: Japanese symbol for “terminate”.
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.