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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
- —脳死判定declaration of brain death; determination of brain death; diagnosis of brain death
- —死すべきmortal
- —溺れ死ぬto die by drowning; to drown
- —死亡保障death benefit (from life insurance)
- —死屍累々heaps of corpses all around
- —死中求活finding a way out of a potentially fatal situation; seeking a way out of a desperate situation
- —生死流転all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration
- —生老病死the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)
- —万死一生advancing in the face of death; having a narrow escape from the jaw of death
- —流転生死all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration
- —大死一番exerting oneself to the utmost, prepared to die if necessary
- —餓死寸前being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve
- —生死一如life and death are the two faces of the same coin
- —溺れ死にdeath by drowning
- —死亡時刻time of death
- —死出の旅one's last journey; the journey to the other world; death
- —死に至るto result in death; to lead to death; to be fatal (e.g. disease)
- —死生不知daredevil; reckless; thinking nothing of one's death
- —十死一生narrow escape from the jaws of death; cheating death; there being barely a chance of escaping death; life-threatening danger
- —死亡広告obituary; notification of death