杀 - Mandarin word #199

杀

shā

Traditional: 杀

HSK 3

#199 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to kill, to murder

Stroke order

杀

！

Don't kill me!

。

He was killed.

。

Someone is killed in this story.

虫chóng。

Please do not kill that insect.

鱼yú。

He killed a fish for dinner.

杀 (shā) means to kill, to murder. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

打

to hit, to beat, to make a call

那么

so, then, in that case

人

person, people

死

to die, dead

他

he, him

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 杀.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 4.