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Kanji Information Sheet for 死 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info: 歹 (がつへん) – death
Henshall Mnemonic: person falls in death, soon bare bones
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #229 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #229 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 必死 [ひっし]
(adj-na,adj-no,n) inevitable death; desperation; frantic; inevitable result [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死亡 [しぼう]
(n,vs) death; mortality [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
- 死刑 [しけい]
(n) death penalty; capital punishment [K] [D] [Jisho] - 生死 [せいし]
(n) life and death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死 [し]
(n,n-suf) death; decease [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 無死 [むし]
(n) baseball with no outs [K] [D] [Jisho] - 過失致死 [かしつちし]
(n) involuntary manslaughter; accidental homicide; negligent homicide [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死に体 [しにたい]
(n) losing posture (sumo); hopeless situation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 必死に [ひっしに]
frantically; desperately; for one's life [K] [D] [Jisho] - 病死 [びょうし]
(n,vs) (dying a) natural death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死活 [しかつ]
(n) life and-or death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 安楽死 [あんらくし]
(n) euthanasia [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死球 [しきゅう]
(n) hit a batter by pitching a ball (baseball) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死去 [しきょ]
(n) death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死刑囚 [しけいしゅう]
(n) criminals condemned to death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 凍死 [とうし]
(n,vs) death from cold; freezing to death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死後 [しご]
(n-adv,n) after death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死語 [しご]
(n) dead language; obsolete word [K] [D] [Jisho] - 急死 [きゅうし]
(n,vs) sudden death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死者 [ししゃ]
(n) casualty; deceased [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死傷者 [ししょうしゃ]
(n) casualties; killed and wounded [K] [D] [Jisho] - 水死 [すいし]
(n) drowning [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死人 [しにん]
(n) corpse; dead person [K] [D] [Jisho] - 餓死 [うえじに]
(n) (death from) starvation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 二死 [にし]
(n) two out [K] [D] [Jisho] - 餓死 [がし]
(n) (death from) starvation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死亡者 [しぼうしゃ]
the deceased; deaths; persons killed [K] [D] [Jisho] - 死亡率 [しぼうりつ]
(n) death rate; mortality [K] [D] [Jisho] - 起死回生 [きしかいせい]
(n) revival of the dead; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 即死 [そくし]
(n) instant death [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.