die

Original meaning: 

drown

from the an unextended meaning of

Components
歹 meaning,distinguishing component

  Meaning Distinguishing component

dǎi

  

evil, bad

death

沒 sound,meaning,remnant component

  Sound Meaning Remnant component

méi

  

not have

Evolution

殁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殁 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

(歿) 

die; death; dead; to end; to die

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4457th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+6B81


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