死
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #170 U+6B7B
How 死 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person kneeling 匕 before a corpse 歹
How to remember it
death · Heisig RSH #715
bones + spoon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 死
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长生不死 | cháng shēng bù sǐ | immortality |
| 不死心 | bù sǐ xīn | unwilling to give up; unresigned |
| 死心眼儿 | sǐ xīn yǎn r | stubborn; obstinate; having a one-track mind |
| 人比人，气死人 | rén bǐ rén , qì sǐ rén | (proverb) constantly comparing oneself to others only leads to dissatisfaction and envy |
| 死人不管 | sǐ rén bù guǎn | (coll.) to wash one's hands of a matter |
| 死人 | sǐ rén | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen |
| 死区 | sǐ qū | dead zone; blind spot |
| 死水 | sǐ shuǐ | stagnant water; backwater |
| 老不死 | lǎo bù sǐ | (derog.) old but still alive; old fart; old bastard |
| 死心 | sǐ xīn | to give up; to admit failure; to drop the matter; to reconcile oneself to loss; to have no… |
| 死生 | sǐ shēng | life or death; critical (event) |
| 生死 | shēng sǐ | life or death |
| 死火山 | sǐ huǒ shān | extinct volcano |
| 生死关头 | shēng sǐ guān tóu | the critical moment; life and death crisis |
| 生老病死 | shēng lǎo bìng sǐ | (lit.) to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom); (fig.) the fate of humanki… |
| 死海 | Sǐ Hǎi | the Dead Sea |
| 死机 | sǐ jī | to crash (of a computer) |
| 人比人得死 | rén bǐ rén děi sǐ | see 人比人，氣死人|人比人，气死人[ren2 bi3 ren2 , qi4 si3 ren2] |
| 气死 | qì sǐ | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger |
| 电死 | diàn sǐ | to electrocute; to die from an electric shock |