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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
- —虎は死して皮を留め人は死して名を残すhe has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name
- —朝に道を聞かば、夕べに死すとも可なりif a man hears the Way in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret
- —人の恋路を邪魔する奴は馬に蹴られて死んじまえone will inevitably suffer the consequences for interfering in a couple's relationship; may whoever interferes with another's love affair be kicked by a horse and die
- —棄死execution by decapitation followed by public display of the body (form of punishment in ancient China)
- —斃死falling dead; perishing; dying
- —死蝋adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
- —死蠟adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
- —諌死committing suicide (to remonstrate or dissuade one's lord); preparing to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord
- —死歿death
- —死処place of death; place to die
- —慚死dying of shame; being so ashamed one wants to die
- —死に神god of death; death deity; Death; Grim Reaper
- —トン死sudden death; unexpected death; (game-ending) blunder
- —とん死sudden death; unexpected death; (game-ending) blunder
- —ひん死(on the) verge of death
- —れき死death by being run over
- —死がい(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains
- —徒死にdying in vain; useless death; meaningless death
- —死に所(fitting) place to die
- —死に処(fitting) place to die