煞

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煞 U+715E, 煞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-715E
← 煝
[U+715D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 煟 →
[U+715F]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 煞
simp. # 煞

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (杀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
閷 *sreːdss
鎩 *sreːds, *srads, *sreːd
殺 *sreːds, *sreːd
蔱 *srads, *sreːd
摋 *slaːd
煞 *sreːd
榝 *sreːd, *sred
刹 *sʰraːd

Alternative form of 殺／杀.

Etymology[edit]

From 殺／杀 (shā).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Note:
  • soah - vernacular (“to end; to stop and give up; to prevent; unexpectedly; how; at once; to be wounded by evil spirits; demon”);
  • sah/sòa - vernacular (“unexpectedly; how; at once”);
  • sat - literary.
Rime
Character 煞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 山 (75)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 所八切
Baxter sreat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃˠɛt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃᵚæt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂəɨt̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʃɛt̚/
Wang
Li 		/ʃæt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʂat̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sha
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		saat3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 煞
Reading # 1/1
No. 11011
Phonetic
component 		杀
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		殺
Old
Chinese 		/*sreːd/
Notes 俗殺字，殺隸變，從左下變三點書訛來，
見鶡冠子

Definitions[edit]

煞

  1. Alternative form of 殺／杀 (“to kill”)
  2. to stop; to halt
    煞尾  ―  shāwěi  ―  to finish off
  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. (Hokkien) to end; to conclude; to terminate; to finish
  7. (Hokkien) to stop and give up; to abandon; to leave it be; to leave it at that
  8. (Hokkien) to prevent; to restrain; to suppress; to hold back
  9. (Hokkien) unexpectedly; surprisingly; instead
  10. (Hokkien) how; how can it be that (used in rhetorical questions)
  11. (Mainland China Hokkien) at once; immediately
  12. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to be wounded by evil spirits
  13. (Taiwanese Hokkien) demon; fiend; devil

Synonyms[edit]

  • (to stop):
  • (to end):
  • (to stop and give up): 算了 (suànle)
  • (to restrain): 制止 (zhìzhǐ), 阻止 (zǔzhǐ)
  • (unexpectedly):
Dialectal synonyms of 居然 (“unexpectedly; to one's surprise; surprisingly”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 居然, 竟然, 竟
Mandarin Taiwan 居然, 竟然
Liuzhou 敢, 硬敢
Yangzhou 居然
Singapore 竟然
Cantonese Guangzhou 竟然
Hong Kong 竟然, 居然, 竟然間
Southern Min Xiamen 煞, 竟然
Quanzhou 煞, 竟然
Zhangzhou 煞, 竟然
Tainan 煞, 竟然
Wu Shanghai 居然, 竟然, 竟, 先勿先
Dialectal synonyms of 馬上 (“immediately; at once”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 馬上, 立刻, 立即, 即時, 即刻, 隨即, 迅即, 立時, 當下, 當即, 登時, 頓時, 眼看
Mandarin Beijing 馬上, 立時刻, 立馬兒, 跟時, 跟手兒
Taiwan 馬上, 立刻
Harbin 馬上, 立刻亮兒
Yantai (Muping) 跟著, 馬上, 眼看著
Jinan 馬上, 馬上馬, 立刻, 立馬追即
Luoyang 眼看, 當下, 說聲兒
Wanrong 馬上
Xi'an 馬上
Yinchuan 馬上, 眼看
Lanzhou 馬上, 立馬
Xining 眼看
Ürümqi 馬上, 立馬兒
Wuhan 馬上, 接身, 眼看
Chengdu 馬上, 跟倒, 跟即, 立時, 立馬
Guiyang 馬上, 立馬
Guilin 馬上
Liuzhou 馬上
Xuzhou 馬上馬, 馬展, 馬時
Yangzhou 馬上
Nanjing 馬即, 馬上
Hefei 馬上
Malaysia 馬上
Singapore 馬上, 立刻
Cantonese Guangzhou 即刻, 即時, 登時, 當堂
Hong Kong 即刻, 立即, 即時, 當堂
Taishan 即刻, 當下
Dongguan 即午, 馬上
Yangjiang 跟手
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 即刻
Singapore (Guangfu) 即刻
Gan Nanchang 馬上, 仰上
Lichuan 馬上, 即刻
Pingxiang 馬上
Hakka Meixian 即刻, 即時, 馬上, 黏時, 力曆
Yudu 馬上
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 黏時, 黏皮, 跈等, 馬上
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 黏時, 黏皮, 跈等, 馬上
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 黏皮, 黏時, 跈等, 馬上
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 黏時, 跈緊, 跈核, 登時, 馬上
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 黏時, 跈等, 馬上
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 黏時, 隨
Huizhou Jixi 當時
Shexian 馬上
Tunxi 馬上
Xiuning 馬上
Yixian 即刻
Qimen 馬上
Wuyuan 馬上
Jin Taiyuan 跟手, 立馬, 立時三刻
Xinzhou 眼看
Northern Min Jian'ou 馬上
Eastern Min Fuzhou 此刻, 馬上, 連刻
Southern Min Xiamen 連鞭, 隨, 隨時, 隨煞, 現煞, 馬上, 煞
Quanzhou 連鞭, 隨, 隨煞, 現煞, 馬上, 煞
Jinjiang 隨時
Zhangzhou 連鞭, 隨, 現煞, 馬上, 煞
Taipei 連鞭, 隨時, 即時
Singapore (Hokkien) 馬上
Manila (Hokkien) 隨, 隨隨, 隨時
Chaozhou 隨時, 馬上, 即時
Shantou 馬上
Singapore (Teochew) 馬上
Leizhou 當下, 即時
Haikou 即刻, 登場
Zhongshan Min Shaxi (Longdu) 馬上, 即刻
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 馬上, 即刻
Wu Shanghai 馬上, 即刻, 隨即, 立刻, 立時, 頓時, 歇歇, 立時三刻, 臨時豁腳, 立馬造橋
Shanghai (Chongming) 眼看
Suzhou 馬上
Danyang 跟手
Hangzhou 立馬兒
Ningbo 隨手
Wenzhou 馬上, 馬上馬, 隨手, 肇
Jinhua 馬上
Xiang Changsha 馬上, 𪐀噠
Loudi 馬下
Shuangfeng 馬上
  • (demon):

Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

煞

  1. evil spirit; demon
    凶神惡煞／凶神恶煞  ―  xiōngshén'èshà  ―  fierce person; ferocious person
  2. very
    熱煞脫了／热煞脱了 [Shanghainese]  ―  8gniq-saq-theq-leq [Wugniu]  ―  (it is) very hot
    我真是急煞了！ [Shanghainese, trad. and simp.]
    6ngu 1tsen 6zy 7ciq-saq-leq [Wugniu]
    I’m seriously in a rush!
  3. (literary) what
  4. (obsolete) although
Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

煞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

煞: Hán Việt readings: sát

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