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死 kanji
death, die
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
しぬしに-
Words with 死
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5死ぬPopularto die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to look dead; to cease; to stop
- N3死亡Populardeath; dying; mortality
- N3必死Popularfrantic; frenetic; desperate; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
- N2死体Populardead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
- N1死Populardeath; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
- N1死刑Populardeath penalty; capital punishment
- N1生死Popularlife and death; life or death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
- —急死Popularsudden death
- —枯死Popularwithering; dying
- —死因Popularcause of death
- —死活Popularlife and death; life or death; life and death (of a group of stones)
- —死球Popularpitch that hits the batter
- —死去Populardeath; decease; passing away
- —死後Popularafter death
- —死語Populardead language; extinct language; obsolete word; dated word; word that has become passé
- —死者Populardead person; (the) deceased; (the) dead; casualties
- —死人Popularcorpse; dead person
- —水死Populardeath by drowning
- —戦死Populardeath in battle
- —即死Popularinstant death