kill

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
死 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

die

敝 sound component

  Sound component

  

worn out

Evolution

斃 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
斃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
斃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
斃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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kill; die violent death; to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death

Most common words with 斃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to die

击毙

to kill

枪毙

to shoot dead

坐以待毙

to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate

毙命

to get killed