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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)
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シ
Kun readings
しぬしに-
Words with 死
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —死にどころ(fitting) place to die
- —死に損ないperson who has escaped death; failed suicide; person who has outlived their time; dotard; doddering old man
- —死に別れるto be separated by death
- —死に後れるto outlive
- —死に絶えるto die out; to become extinct
- —死に損なうto fail to die (after attempting suicide); to fail to kill oneself; to survive (when one should have died); to come close to dying; to be almost killed; to narrowly escape death; to survive (when others died); to outlive others
- —死に掛かるto be dying
- —死に掛けるto be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
- —死亡給付金death benefit
- —死亡証明書death certificate
- —幼児死亡率infant mortality rate
- —死体検案書post-mortem certificate
- —死に至る病deadly disease; sickness leading to death; terminal illness
- —ショック死death due to shock (triggered by blood loss, heart failure or other causes)
- —死重的損失deadweight loss
- —着床前死亡preimplantation death
- —致死遺伝子lethal allele; lethal gene
- —死出の田長lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- —死んだふりplaying dead; feigning death; playing possum
- —死に変わるto die and be reborn as something else