屠杀
tú shā · HSK 7
to massacre
🔪 屠 butcher + 杀 kill = mass killing; tú shā sounds like too-shah
屠 means to slaughter or butcher animals, and 杀 means to kill. Stack the two killing-words together and the scale jumps from one slaying to a whole massacre or bloodbath.
杀 — 刂 knife radical + 朩 phonetic
杀 (shā) means 'to kill.' The traditional form 殺 shows a hand wielding a weapon (殳) beside a phonetic element. The simplified form keeps a reduced phonetic 朩 over 朩, with the knife radical 刂 originally implied through the weapon component, signaling violent action.