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死

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HSK 3 · word 1915 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

那棵老树已经死了。

nà kē lǎo shù yǐ jīng sǐ le

That old tree has already died.

The character 死

死 is 歹, bare bones, beside a kneeling figure. To die — but its commonest job is intensity: 累死了 dead tired, 热死了 unbearably hot. 死 also means rigid, as in 死板.

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