| shā | to kill/to murder/to slaughter/fight |
| 杀 | to kill to murder to fight |
| 杀一儆百 | lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others pour encourager les autres |
| 杀人 | homicide to murder to kill (a person) |
| 杀人不眨眼 | kill without batting an eye |
| 杀人不见血 | kill without spilling blood; kill by subtle means |
| 杀人不过头点地 | It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously a fuss about nothing nothing to write home about |
| 杀人凶手 | hatchet man |
| 杀人如麻 | to kill people like scything flax (idiom); human life as grass a politician acting with total disregard for the life of his countrymen |
| 杀人放火 | to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson |
| 杀人案 | murder case homicide case |
| 杀人案件 | (case of, incident of) murder |
| 杀人灭口 | silence a witness of crime by killing him off |
| 杀人犯 | murderer homicide |
| 杀人狂 | homicidal maniac |
| 杀人罪 | homicide; mark of Cain |
| 杀人越货 | to kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money |
| 杀价 | to beat down the price |
| 杀伐 | massacre |
| 杀伤 | to kill and injure |
| 杀伤力 | killing or wounding power of a weapon |