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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
- —死にそうat the point of death; almost dead; about to die; at some limit (pain, hunger, etc.)
- —臨死体験near-death experience
- —死刑廃止abolition of the death penalty; abolition of capital punishment
- —胎児死亡fetal death (foetal); embryonic demise
- —死者の書Book of the Dead (ancient Egypt)
- —死海文書Dead Sea scrolls
- —死海写本Dead Sea scrolls
- —致死因子lethal factor; lethal gene
- —死出田長lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- —脳死移植organ transplant from a brain-dead donor
- —傷害致死manslaughter; bodily injury resulting in death
- —死刑宣告death sentence
- —瀕死状態moribund state; near-death; barely alive condition
- —死物寄生saprophagy
- —枯木死灰withered trees and cold ash; someone who is detached and free of desires; someone who has no vitality
- —死に学問useless learning
- —魂不死説(theory of) the immortality of the soul
- —死亡保険life insurance; insurance payable at death
- —笑い死にdeath by laughter
- —絞殺死体body of a strangled person