to kill / to murder / to attack / to weaken or reduce / to smart (dialect) / (used after a verb) extremely

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is messing around with a sewage pipe sticking out of the floor (朩) in front of the ashram (a1) using pliers (乂). To reduce (杀) the marks he left he is trying to rub them off with an eraser (杀).

杀 character breakdown

to regulate / to govern / to control / to mow

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 乂 looks like pliers. Maud Younger (y) is using pliers (乂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to regulate (乂) and control (乂) the water flow of the sink. Using the pliers she has to pull a lot of bananas (丿) and fingers (㇏) out of the sink.
one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "pin"), an ancient Korean writing system

= + : Let's say this is a sewage pipe which sticks out of the floor. The horizontal line is the floor level, and 小 below it represents the stuff in the earth.

Characters with 杀 as component

to kill / to murder / to attack / to weaken or reduce / to smart (dialect) / (used after a verb) extremely

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is messing around with a sewage pipe sticking out of the floor (朩) in front of the ashram (a1) using pliers (乂). To reduce (杀) the marks he left he is trying to rub them off with an eraser (杀).
Buddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 剎多羅|刹多罗[cha4 duo1 luo2], Sanskrit "ksetra")

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) wanted to kill himself with a knife (刂) in the ashram's bathroom (a4), but then he finds that there is a nice Buddhist monastery (刹). The Buddhists promise that they can just erase Charlie's past using an eraser (杀) on his head.
to brake

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) found his new car is breaking (刹) by itself even if he actually doesn't want to break. In front of the ashram (a1) Sherlock finds there are erasers (杀) stuck to the tire which he removes using a kitchen knife (刂).
to murder a superior / to murder one's parent
spear / to cripple (literary)

Words with 杀

killer / murderer / hit man / (sports) formidable player
to massacre / to slaughter
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously / a fuss about nothing / nothing to write home about
lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
(case of, incident of) murder
killer whale (Orcinus orca)
lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion) / fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on
robbing the rich to help the poor
to kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example
to disinfect / (computing) to destroy a computer virus
to swindle associates, friends or relatives
killer / butcher / slaughterer
variant of 殺一儆百|杀一儆百[sha1 yi1 jing3 bai3]

Sentences with 杀

杀 currently does not appear in any sentence.