死
死 — sa
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 죽을 사
- Romanization
- sa
- English
- die; dead; death
- Mandarin
- sǐ
- Japanese on'yomi
- シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- し.ぬ し.に-
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #229 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 歹 (78, 2 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6B7B
Parts that make up 死
How 死 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 死 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 歹, 尸.
Korean example words with 死
- 동사凍死 Korean gloss: 얼어 죽음
- 사부死夫 Korean gloss: 죽은 남편
- 사생死生 Korean gloss: 죽음과 삶
- 사인死人 Korean gloss: 죽은 사람
- 사자死者 Korean gloss: 죽은 사람
- 아사餓死 Korean gloss: 굶어 죽음
- 면사免死 Korean gloss: 죽음을 면함
- 사망死亡 Korean gloss: 사람이 죽음
- 사상死傷 Korean gloss: 죽거나 다침
- 사인死因 Korean gloss: 죽게 된 원인
- 사후死後 Korean gloss: 죽고 난 이후
- 사약死藥 Korean gloss: 먹으면 죽는 약
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 死
- 死し death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
- 死者ししゃ dead person; (the) deceased; (the) dead
- 脳死のうし brain death
- 死亡しぼう death; dying; mortality
- 二死にし two out; two down (and one to go)
- 死去しきょ death; decease; passing away
- 死刑しけい death penalty; capital punishment
- 必死ひっし frantic; frenetic; desperate
- 死体したい dead body; corpse; cadaver
- 死後しご after death
- 無死むし no outs
- 死因しいん cause of death
Other hanja read “사”
Other hanja with radical 歹
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