Question

死 し.ぬ、し.に- 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 3 歹: bare bone; bad; wrong; death radical (n. 78)匕: spoon; spoon or katakana hi radical (no. 21) 歹 4 (none) death Imagine the grim reaper (the bringer of death), carrying a spoon made of human bones instead of a scythe.

Accepted Answer

シ death, die 4 229 6 78 がつ・がってん・がつへん・かばね・かばねへん・いちたへん 会意 Compound Ideographic 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. 815

Kanji	死
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.
RTK Index	815

Death Spoon Die Radical Bones 死 シ し.ぬ、し.に

Death Spoon Die Radical Bones 死シし.ぬ、し.に