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死

JLPT N4 SL3 6 strokes Frequency: #229

Meanings

Death, Die

Radicals

歹

Decomposition

⿸歹匕

Etymology

Ideographic: A person kneeling 匕 before a corpse 歹

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 diagonal right-to-left

3 corner top-to-bottom

4 dot bottom-to-top

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 curve right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シ shi

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

し shi

Words Using This Kanji

462 words total

Other (20 words)

超過死亡率ちょうかしぼうりつ

excess mortality rate

excess deaths

case fatality rate

median lethal dose

to cause casualties

home death

undead

suicidal ideation

death toll

osteonecrosis

death by heatstroke

paper flower for a funeral

生と死せいとし

life and death

感染死かんせんし

death from infection

万死に値するばんしにあたいする

to be the worst of the worst

表皮壊死ひょうひえし

epidermal necrolysis

中毒性表皮壊死融解症ちゅうどくせいひょうひえしゆうかいしょう

toxic epidermal necrolysis