煞
shā
Pinyin
Definition
煞
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- to terminate
- to cut short
- to bring to a stop
- to squeeze
- to tighten
- to damage
- variant of 殺|杀[shā]
煞
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- fiend
- demon
- very
- (Tw) SARS (loanword)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (15)
- 1 to stop one's pen
- 2 to break off writing
- 3 final remarks (at the end of a book or article)
- 1 see also: 大杀风景 dà shā fēng jǐng
- 1 demon
- 2 fiend
- 1 variant: 折杀 zhé shā
Idioms (3)
凶神恶煞
- 1 fiends (idiom); devils and monsters
煞有介事
- 1 to make a show of being very much in earnest (idiom)
- 2 to act as if one is taking things very seriously
煞费苦心
- 1 to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking
- 2 at the cost of a lot of effort