to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned

Radical: 歹 HSK 3 v, a, vn, d ideographic

Components & Etymology

死 decomposes into the following components:

Words containing 死

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 死.

临死
lín sǐ
作死
zuò sǐ
假死
jiǎ sǐ
冒死
mào sǐ
写死
xiě sǐ
冤死
yuān sǐ
冻死
dòng sǐ
凶死
xiōng sǐ
刺死
cì sǐ
勒死
lēi sǐ
半死
bàn sǐ
卡死
kǎ sǐ

Related characters (radical 歹)

Characters that share the radical .

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