Chinese word dictionary

杀死

shā sǐ · to kill

Practice word

Word information

Simplified杀死

Traditional殺死

Pinyinshā sǐ

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

杀shā

to kill, to murder, to slaughter; to hurt

死sǐ

dead; death; impassable, inflexible

How to learn 杀死

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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死sǐ

to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned

杀shā

to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely

死亡sǐwáng

to die; death

自杀zìshā

to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide

救死扶伤jiùsǐ-fúshāng

to help the dying and heal the injured

抹杀mǒshā

to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence; to expunge; to blot out; to suppress