(lit.) to kill people like scything flax (idiom); (fig.) to kill people like flies
trad. 殺人如麻
Also written 殺人如麻【shā rén rú má】
Characters in this word
4杀
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to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack, to weaken; to reduce, (dialect) to smart, (used after a verb) extremely
- Pinyin
- shā
- Traditional
- 殺
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 218 of 2500
人
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person; people, CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Pinyin
- rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 30 of 2500
如
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as, as if, such as
- Pinyin
- rú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1252 of 2500
麻
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hemp (variant of 麻[ma2])
- Pinyin
- má
- Traditional
- 蔴
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 14175 of 2500