死

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to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A person kneeling 匕 before a corpse 歹

Components 歹匕

death · Heisig RSH #715

bones + spoon

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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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