杀 殺
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 殺, the traditional character: 杀 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Betty杀了他。
Betty killed him.
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他为死去父亲报了仇杀他。
He killed him to avenge his dead father.
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他为死去父报了仇杀他。
He killed him to avenge his dead father.
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他对杀父凶手进行了报复。
He avenged the murder of his father.
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他服毒自杀了。
He committed suicide by taking poison.
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他自杀了。
He committed suicide.
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他被控告杀人罪。
He was accused of murder.
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他试图自杀，但是失败了。
He tried to kill himself but it ended in failure.