煞

煞 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓大火 (NKF), four-corner 2833₄, composition ⿱⿰刍攵灬)

• 𠿼, 𢅑, 𢢴, 𢶞, 㬠, 𣛶, 𤐑, 𥋧, 繺, 𰳠, 𨭝, 𢎓, 𢨓

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

From 殺／杀 (shā).

煞

1. Alternative form of 殺 / 杀 (“to kill”)
2. to stop; to halt

   煞車／煞车  ―  shāchē  ―  to hit the break

3. to weaken; to reduce

   煞風景／煞风景  ―  shāfēngjǐng  ―  to damage the beautiful scenery

4. to tighten
5. (Northern Wu) to satisfy; to quench (esp. a desire)

   煞念頭／煞念头 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁷saq ⁶gni-deu [Wugniu]  ―  to satisfy a craving

6. to end; to conclude; to terminate; to finish

   煞尾  ―  shāwěi  ―  to finish off

7. Used as a hyperbolical intensifying complement.

   房間裡熱煞哉！ [Suzhounese, trad.]
   房间里热煞哉！ [Suzhounese, simp.]

   ²vaon-ke₁-li₆ ⁸gniq-saeq₇-tse₀ [Wugniu]

   The room is so hot!

   我真是急煞了！ [Shanghainese, trad. and simp.]

   ⁶ngu ¹tsen ⁶zy ⁷ciq-saq₇-leq₈ [Wugniu]

   I'm seriously in a rush!

   • 秋風秋雨愁煞人 [MSC, trad.]
     秋风秋雨愁煞人 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1907, last written words of 秋瑾 Qiu Jin before her beheading

     qiū fēng qiū yǔ chóu shā rén

     Autumn wind, autumn rain – they make one die of sorrow.

8. (Hokkien) to stop and give up; to abandon; to leave it be; to leave it at that
9. (Hokkien) to prevent; to restrain; to suppress; to hold back
10. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to be wounded by evil spirits

• (to stop):

• (to end):

• (to stop and give up): 算了 (suànle)
• (to restrain): 制止 (zhìzhǐ), 阻止 (zǔzhǐ)
• (unexpectedly):

• (how): 豈／岂 (qǐ), 怎麼／怎么 (zěnme), 哪 (nǎ), 難道／难道 (nándào), 莫非 (mòfēi)
• (at once):

• (demon):

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same as etymology 1?”)

煞

1. evil spirit; demon

   凶神惡煞／凶神恶煞  ―  xiōngshén'èshà  ―  fierce person; ferocious person

2. A pre-predicate intensifier: very; extremely

   煞費苦心／煞费苦心  ―  shàfèikǔxīn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (Hokkien) unexpectedly; surprisingly; instead
4. (Hokkien) how; how can it be that (used in rhetorical questions)
5. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) at once; immediately
6. Variant pronunciation for the intensifying complement.
7. (obsolete) although

Related to 啥 (shá, shà).

煞

1. (Early Mandarin) what

• 什麼／什么 (shénme), 啥 (shá)

煞

1. (Hokkien) to get hit with a strong feeling; to get infatuated with; to long for
   • 2020, “駟馬難追”, in 蔡湘宜 (lyrics), 蔡宜汝 (music), 《腳步慢慢》‎, performed by 洪榮宏 [Chris Hung] and 張瀞云:

     想妳想妳日連暝　煞到妳愛到妳 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     想你想你日连暝　煞到你爱到你 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     siūⁿ lí siūⁿ lí li̍t liân mî, sahⁿ-tio̍h lí ài-tio̍h lí [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “煞”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

煞 • (sal) (hangeul 살, revised sal, McCune–Reischauer sal, Yale sal)

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煞: Hán Việt readings: sát

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