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 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]e[t]-s | bjiejH | bì | fall down (from wound or illness) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.3385% of movies
2080th most common character in movies
2534th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6583 |
Shuowen | “獘,頓仆也。从犬,敝聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘與犬犬獘’。斃,獘或从死。” |
Sources
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