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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
- —野たれ死ぬto die by the roadside; to die a dog's death
- —ノタレ死ぬto die by the roadside; to die a dog's death
- —死にもの狂いdesperation; struggle to the death
- —死にそこなう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
- —死にいたる病deadly disease; sickness leading to death; terminal illness
- —死人に口無しdead men tell no tales; the dead cannot speak in their own defense
- —死に追い遣るto drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die
- —うらやま死刑being jealous of someone over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
- —死体損壊遺棄mutilation and abandonment a corpse
- —死にものぐるいdesperation; struggle to the death
- —死してのちやむduty ends only in death
- —死してのち已むduty ends only in death
- —死体損壊遺棄罪(crime of) mutilating and abandoning a corpse
- —死にいたらしめるto cause someone's death; to cause someone to die; to kill
- —生死にかかわる問題matter of life and death
- —死んだ子の歳を数えるcrying over spilt milk; counting the age of one's dead child
- —生有る者は必ず死有りno mortal escapes death; all men must die; he who has life, certainly has death
- —狡兎死して走狗煮らるwhen the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked
- —死んでも死にきれないI can't die and leave things this way
- —死んで花見が咲くものかonce you're dead, that's it