This time, we're going to take a hard look at Sesshomaru's name and it's translation.
"Sesshomaru" breaks into three kanji characters:
殺 生 丸
Setsu/shiyou/maru individually
or Sesshomaru together.
Let's look at them one at a time:
殺
This is a ten stroke character that is pronounced "se-tsu" or サイ.
Generally, it can mean one of the following:
kill, murder, slay, suppress, stifle, smother
It is character 488 in A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, and appears on page 150.
If we dissect setsu, we get the following:
The first half of setsu is a corruption of the character for "pig" (ch