Kanji | 死 |
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Onyomi | シ |
Kunyomi | し.ぬ、し.に- |
English | death, die |
Examples | 死亡(しぼう): (1) death; mortality (2) to die; to pass away 死刑(しけい): death penalty; capital punishment 必死(ひっし): (1) frantic; desperate (2) inevitable death (3) brinkmate (inevitable checkmate) (shogi) 死体(したい): dead body; corpse; cadaver 生死(せいし): (1) life and death (2) samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) (3) death 死(し): (1) death; decease (2) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation) 死ぬ(しぬ): to die |
JLPT Level | 4 |
Jouyou Grade | 3 |
Frequency | 229 |
Components | 歹: bare bone; bad; wrong; death radical (n. 78) 匕: spoon; spoon or katakana hi radical (no. 21) |
Number of Strokes | 6 |
Kanji Radical | 歹 |
Radical Number | 78 |
Radical Strokes | 4 |
Radical Reading | がつ・がってん・がつへん・かばね・かばねへん・いちたへん |
Traditional Form | (none) |
Classification | 会意 Compound Ideographic |
Keyword | death |
Koohii Story 1 | Ok, this is where knowing some Eastern culture comes in handy! In Japanese society, when someone dies they creamate the body and pick out the remaining bones with special chopsticks. In this case, they´re out of chopsticks so they decide to use (gasp!) a spoon instead. |
Koohii Story 2 | Imagine the grim reaper (the bringer of death), carrying a spoon made of human bones instead of a scythe. |
Tags: jlpt.n4, grade3, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_body_health.illness
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