刹

See also: 剎

Translingual

Japanese	刹
Simplified	刹
Traditional	剎

Alternative forms

• In mainland China, the bottom left component is 朩.
• In Taiwan, the bottom left component is 𣎳, but is only used as a variant form of 剎.
• In Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the bottom left component is 木, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

刹 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大木中弓 (KDLN) or 難大木中弓 (XKDLN), four-corner 4290₀, composition ⿰⿱㐅朩刂(G) or ⿰⿱㐅𣎳刂(T) or ⿰⿱㐅木刂(JK))

Derived characters

• 䓭, 𠝨, 𤟆 (Only for mainland China character forms. Taiwan character forms contain 剎 instead)
• 𥓑, 𭈗, 𮢎, 𥤔

Related characters

• 剎 (U+524E) (Preferred form for traditional Chinese used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, contains 朮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1967
• Dae Jaweon: page 316, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 336, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5239

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 刹 – see 剎. (This character is the simplified and variant form of 剎).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

Note difference in composition for the definition above:

As simplified form of 剎／刹 - ⿰⿱㐅朩刂. As variant form of 剎／刹 - ⿰⿱㐅𣎳刂.

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Japanese

Kanji

刹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. Buddhist temple; pagoda

Readings

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: せつ (setsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: はたばしら (hatabashira); てら (tera, 刹); くに (kuni)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
刹
さつ Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

刹(さつ) • (satsu) 

1. Alternative form of 檫.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
刹
せつ Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

刹(せつ) • (setsu) 

1. (Buddhism) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Korean

Hanja

刹 (eum 찰 (chal))

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• 寺刹 (사찰, sachal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

刹: Hán Nôm readings: sát

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation