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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
- —必死になってPopulardesperately; for one's dear life
- —圧死death by crushing; being crushed to death
- —一死dying; laying down one's life; one out
- —煙死death by smoke suffocation
- —横死violent (tragic or accidental) death; dog's death
- —仮死(state of) apparent death; suspended animation
- —怪死mysterious death
- —擬死feigning death; playing possum; tonic immobility; thanatosis; apparent death
- —刑死execution; death by execution
- —決死preparedness for death; do-or-die spirit
- —獄死death in jail; death in prison
- —三死three outs
- —惨死tragic death; violent death
- —死灰as lifeless as cold ashes
- —死角blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space; sector without fire
- —死期time of death; one's final hour; one's end
- —死罪capital crime; crime resulting in a death penalty
- —死産stillbirth
- —死蔵hoarding; storing away (without using)
- —死闘life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death