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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
- —死地(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament; inescapable situation
- —死没death
- —死児dead child; stillborn child
- —死命fate; life or death
- —死物dead thing; useless item
- —死所place of death; place to die
- —死毒ptomaine poisoning
- —死海Dead Sea
- —死屍corpse
- —死臭putrid smell of a corpse
- —死脈weakening pulse; exhausted (mining) vein
- —死病fatal disease
- —死票vote for a losing candidate; wasted vote
- —死斑postmortem lividity; livor mortis; death spot
- —死線borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
- —壊死necrosis
- —起死saving from the brink of death
- —老死dying of old age
- —牢死dying in prison
- —死点dead point