shāchà

temple

Components
杀 sound component

  Sound component

shā

  

kill

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Evolution

剎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shā

temple; to brake

() 

chà

Buddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 剎多羅, Sanskrit ksetra)

Most common words with 剎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

刹车

to stop

to brake

刹那

split second

罗刹

demon in Buddhism

急刹车

emergency braking

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9816% of movies

2332nd most common character in movies

2249th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

Unicode

U+524E

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“剎,柱也。从刀。未詳。殺省聲。”


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