sǐ
die
Depicts a person (人) mourning over a carcass (歹).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*sijʔ | sijX | sǐ | die (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 96.5722% of movies
114th most common character in movies
317th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+6B7B |
Shuowen | “死,澌也,人所離也。从歺,从人。,古文死如此。” |
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