死亡

Character by character

• 死sǐ6 strokesHSK 3die; dead; death
• 亡wáng3 strokesHSK 6death, destroyed; lose, perish

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Example sentences

• 他害怕死亡。

  Tā hài pà sǐ wáng

  He is afraid of death.

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• 爱情比死亡更强大。

  Ài qíng bǐ sǐ wáng gèng qiáng dà

  Love is more powerful than death.

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• 没什么比死亡更可怕。

  Méi shén me bǐ sǐ wáng gèng kě pà

  There is nothing scarier than death.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 死亡. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 死sǐHSK 3

  to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned

• 伤亡shāng wángHSK 6

  casualties; injuries and deaths

• 生死shēng sǐHSK 7

  life or death

• 灭亡miè wángHSK 7

  to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate

• 逃亡táo wángHSK 7

  to flee; flight (from danger); fugitive

• 死心sǐ xīnHSK 7

  to give up; to admit failure; to drop the matter; to reconcile oneself to loss; to have no more illusions about

• 死心塌地sǐ xīn tā dìHSK 7

  to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving

• 亡羊补牢wáng yáng bǔ láoHSK 7

  lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom); fig. to act belatedly; better late than never; to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted