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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)

死水しすい

dead water

死兆星しちょうせい

Star of Death (nickname for Alcor)

敗死はいし

dying in a lost battle

死ぬ権利しぬけんり

right to die

六死八生ろくしはっしょう

six die but eight live

誕生死たんじょうし

stillbirth

死はハネにありしははねにあり

there is death in the hane

一方石に死になしいっぽういしにしになし

one weak group can defend

出離生死しゅつりしょうじ

entering nirvana

不死性ふしせい

immortality

死せる魂しせるたましい

Dead Souls (novel by Gogol)

ベニスに死すベニスにしす

Death in Venice (1912 novella by Thomas Mann, film, opera)

セールスマンの死セールスマンのし

Death of a Salesman (1949 play by Arthur Miller)

death in jail

euthanasia

death by crushing

after one out

dying for one's country

一死いっし

dying

九死に一生きゅうしにいっしょう

narrow escape from death

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