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煞

shā

Character

What 煞 means

1. to terminate
2. to cut short
3. to bring to a stop
4. to squeeze
5. to tighten
6. to damage
7. variant of {杀|shā}

Other readings

煞 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shàfiend; demon; very

Example sentences

• 我讨厌遇到有人故意急煞车。
  I hate getting brake-checked.
• 汤姆猛踩煞车，汽车开始打滑。
  Tom slammed on the brakes and the car began to skid.
• 现在想想，我肯定看起来很凶神恶煞。
  Now that I think about it, I must look threatening.
• 我讨厌前面的车毫无缘故地突然煞车。
  I hate when the driver in front of me hits the brakes for no reason.

Words starting with 煞

• 煞是shà shìextremely; very
• 煞有介事shà yǒu jiè shìto make a show of being very much in earnest (idiom)…
• 煞白shà báideathly white
• 煞费苦心shà fèi kǔ xīnto take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking; at the cost of a lot of effort
• 煞车shā chēto brake (when driving)
• 煞住shā zhùto brake; to stop; to forbid
• 煞到shà dào(Taiwan) to like; to fall in love with
• 煞尾shā wěito finish off; to wind up
• 煞气shà qìbaleful look; inauspicious influence; (of a tire, balloon etc) to leak air
• 煞神shà shéndemon; fiend
• 煞笔shā bǐto stop one's pen; to break off writing; final remarks (at the end of a book or article)
• 煞账shā zhàngto settle an account
• 煞性子shā xìng zito vent anger
• 煞风景shā fēng jǐngto be an eyesore; (fig.) to spoil the fun; to be a wet blanket
• 煞有其事shà yǒu qí shìsee 煞有介事
• 煞气腾腾shā qì téng téngvariant of 杀气腾腾

Words containing 煞

• 凶神恶煞xiōng shén è shà(idiom) fiends; devils; monsters
• 凶煞xiōng shàdemon; fiend
• 恶煞è shàdemon; fiend
• 天煞孤星tiān shà gū xīngbane of others' existence
• 抹煞mǒ shāvariant of 抹杀
• 折煞zhé shāvariant of 折杀
• 大煞风景dà shā fēng jǐngsee 大杀风景
• 一笔抹煞yī bǐ mǒ shāvariant of 一笔抹杀

Characters that look like 煞

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 然ráncorrect; right; so
• 熊xióngbear; (colloquial) to scold; to rebuke; (colloquial) weak; incapable
• 熬áoto cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
• 阙quēused in place of 缺 (old); mistake
• 鹈tíused in 鹈鹕
• 煦xùbalmy; nicely warm; cozy

Sounds the same

Read shā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 杀to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart
• 沙granule; hoarse; raspy
• 莎katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
• 纱cotton yarn; muslin
• 砂sand; gravel; granule
• 刹to brake
• 鲨shark
• 痧cholera
• 裟used in 袈裟
• 铩(old) spear; lance; (literary) to cripple; to harm; to injure
• 樧Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
• 魦shark family, including some rays and skates