煞

Translingual

Han character

煞 (radical 86 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓大火 (NKF), four-corner 2833₄)

1. malignant deity
2. baleful, noxious
3. strike dead

References

• KangXi: page 677, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19210
• Dae Jaweon: page 1088, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2221, character 4
• Unihan data for U+715E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

煞 (Yale saat3)

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Japanese

Kanji

煞

Readings

• On: さつ (satsu), さい (sai), せつ (setsu)
• Kun: ころす (korosu)

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Korean

Hanja

煞 (hangeul 살, revised sal, McCune-Reischauer sal, Yale sal)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

煞 (pinyin shā (sha1), shà (sha4), Wade-Giles sha¹, sha⁴)

Last modified on 5 September 2012, at 10:39