Character Details
| die (to); extreme feeling | Ascii: — | w354 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 死 | sǐ | seuh | 3 | 歹 (death) + 匕 (spoon) → die | 死 link | ||||||
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In Japanese society, when death occurs they cremate the body and pick out the remaining bones with special chopsticks. In this case, they're out of chopsticks so they decide to use (gasp!) a spoon instead. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
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| - So annoying | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 欠 | qiàn | death | lack, yawn | open mouth + lean | 次 欠 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 歹 (death) + 匕 (spoon) → die | 歹 (semantic: death) | 匕 (phonetic) | phonetic from 匕 | ||||||||