煞 shā

1. shā verb to kill
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 殺 (Guoyu '煞' shā v 1; Unihan '煞')
2. shā verb to terminate; to stop
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '煞'; Guoyu '煞' shā v 2)
3. shà adjective very
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '煞'; Guoyu '煞' shà adv 1)
4. shà noun a fiend; an evil spirit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '煞'; Guoyu '煞' shà n 2; Unihan '煞')
5. shà adjective noxious
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '煞')
6. shà pronoun how; what
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '煞' shà adv 2)

Contained in

• 煞笔(煞筆) to stop one's pen; to break off writing; final remarks (at the end of a book or article)
• 凶神恶煞(兇神惡煞) fiends; devils and monsters
• 煞尾 to finish off; to wind up
• 煞有介事 to make a show of being very much in earnest; to act as if one is taking things very seriously
• 煞白 deathly white
• 煞气(煞氣) baleful look; inauspicious influence; (of a tire, balloon etc) to leak air
• 煞性子 to vent anger
• 煞账(煞賬) to settle an account
• 煞是 extremely; very
• 煞费苦心(煞費苦心) to make a painstaking effort
• 抹煞 to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence; to expunge; to blot out; to suppress
• 煞风景(煞風景) to be an eyesore; to spoil the fun; to be a wet blanket
• 煞神 demon; fiend
• 天煞孤星 bane of others' existence
• 凶煞(兇煞) demon; fiend
• 恶煞(惡煞) demon; fiend
• 煞到 to like; to fall in love with
• 煞车(煞車) to brake
• 煞住 to brake; to stop; to forbid

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第七十一回 Chapter 71 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 第一百二十回 Chapter 120 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 第二回 Chapter 58 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
• 卷六十一　表第三:　交聘表中 Volume 61 Tables 3: Communication between States 2 History of Jin 金史 — count: 2
• 第二回 Chapter 60 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
• 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
• 第五回 Chapter 5 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
• 卷二百〇六 志第一百五十九 藝文五 Volume 206 Treatises 159: Arts and Literature 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
• 序 Preface Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2

Collocations

• 地煞 (地煞) 七十二地煞 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 序 Preface — count: 25
• 煞星 (煞星) 七十二座地煞星 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 6
• 煞煞 (煞煞) 煞煞威威振鬼神 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第五回 Chapter 5 — count: 4
• 煞变化 (煞變化) 學一個地煞變化罷 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 2
• 大夫煞 (大夫煞) 夏遣武功大夫煞執直 — History of Jin 金史, 卷六十一　表第三:　交聘表中 Volume 61 Tables 3: Communication between States 2 — count: 2
• 笑煞 (笑煞) 笑煞痴心安道全 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六十五回 Chapter 65 — count: 2
• 煞一 (煞一) 大家把威風煞一煞兒才好 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 58 — count: 2
• 黑煞 (黑煞) 纔離黑煞凶神難 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十七回 Chapter 37 — count: 2
• 亏煞 (虧煞) 虧煞他 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十四回 Chapter 24 — count: 2
• 煞曜 (煞曜) 罡星煞曜降凡世 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六十三回 Chapter 63 — count: 2