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

lit. to kill the tiger and behead the scaly dragon
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
(idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred
antivirus software / abbr. for 殺毒軟件|杀毒软件[sha1 du2 ruan3 jian4]
to storm (a city etc) / to raid
to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
kill the chickens and butcher the geese (idiom)
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
variant of 煞風景|煞风景[sha1 feng1 jing3]
Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy make-up, flamboyant costumes, piercings etc (loanword from "smart")

Sentences with 杀

杀 currently does not appear in any sentence.