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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
- —死一等を減ずるto commute a death sentence to life imprisonment
- —死に至らしめるto cause someone's death; to cause someone to die; to kill
- —狐死して兎泣くpeople have sympathy for kindred in distress; (when) the fox dies, the rabbit cries
- —死んでもいいわI love you too; I would (now) not mind dying
- —死はハネにありthere is death in the hane
- —生死に関わる問題matter of life and death
- —九死に一生を得るto have a narrow escape from death
- —幼児突然死症候群sudden infant death syndrome; SIDS
- —中毒性表皮壊死症toxic epidermal necrosis; TEN
- —殺しても死なない(you) couldn't kill (him) if you tried
- —ナポリを見て死ねsee Naples and die
- —生は難く死は易しliving is difficult; dying is easy
- —プログラム細胞死programmed cell death
- —業務上過失致死傷professional negligence resulting in injury or death
- —逮捕監禁致死傷罪illegal arrest and imprisonment resulting in death or bodily injury
- —死中に活を求めるto search for a way out of a potentially fatal situation; to seek for a way out of a desperate situation
- —バターン死の行進Bataan Death March (1942)
- —一方石に死になしone weak group can defend; one group of weak stones doesn't die
- —城を枕に討ち死にfighting to the bitter end; going down with the ship; remaining in one's castle and fighting to the end
- —セールスマンの死Death of a Salesman (1949 play by Arthur Miller)