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残杀

cán shā

2-character word Traditional 殘殺

What 残杀 means

1. to massacre
2. to slaughter

The characters in 残杀

• 残cánto destroy; to spoil; to ruin
• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart

Words containing 残杀

• 自相残杀zì xiāng cán shāto massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife

Sounds the same

Read cán shā, tone for tone, but written differently.

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