bì
kill
Phonosemantic compound. 死 represents the meaning and 敝 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 斃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to die | ||
to kill | ||
to shoot dead | ||
to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate | ||
to get killed |
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