(shā hài) - to kill, to murder, to slay in Mandarin
shāhàiTraditional: 殺害
Translation
to kill, to murder, to slay
Word origin
A compound of 杀 (shā, to kill) and 害 (hài, to harm, to injure), intensifying the sense to the deliberate killing of a person.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 杀 (shā, to kill) + 害 (hài, to harm)
Stroke order
杀
害
Examples
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That innocent man was murdered.
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The police are investigating this murder case.
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We must never kill innocent animals.
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Many civilians were killed in the war.
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He was arrested for killing someone.
杀害 (shā hài) means to kill or murder, used of people and animals and carrying a strong sense of wrongful, deliberate killing. It is more formal and weighty than the bare verb 杀.
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