殺人
さつじん · satsujin · JLPT N1 · noun
murder
🔪 殺 (kill) + 人 (person): killing a person means murder
殺 means to kill and 人 means person. Together, 殺人 literally means killing a person, which is the Japanese word for murder.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.