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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
- —死んでも死に切れぬI can't die and leave things this way
- —致死性家族性不眠症fatal familial insomnia; FFI
- —乳幼児突然死症候群sudden infant death syndrome; SIDS; cot death; crib death
- —人は死して名を留むhe has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
- —親が死んでも食休みresting after a meal is sacrosanct; even if your parents have just died, take a rest after your meal
- —死んだ子の年を数えるcrying over spilt milk; counting the age of one's dead child
- —生ある者は必ず死ありno mortal escapes death; all men must die; he who has life, certainly has death
- —狡兎死して走狗烹らるwhen the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked
- —ナポリを見てから死ねsee Naples and die
- —死んでも死に切れないI can't die and leave things this way
- —中毒性表皮壊死融解症toxic epidermal necrolysis; TEN
- —死んで花実が咲くものかonce you're dead, that's it
- —死んで花実がなるものかonce you're dead, that's it
- —馬鹿は死ななきゃ治らないonce a fool, always a fool; idiots will only be cured when they die
- —悪人は畳の上では死ねないa bad person does not deserve to die in his own bed
- —兎死すれば狐これを悲しむpeople have sympathy for kindred in distress; when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves
- —板垣死すとも自由は死せずItagaki may die, but liberty never!
- —豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ねtake a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die
- —老兵は死なずただ消え去るのみold soldiers never die; they just fade away
- —碁に凝ると親の死に目に逢わぬif you get too absorbed when playing go, you will miss your parent's deathbed