Mandarin Banana

死

to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 死

Shakespeare is scared to death when suddenly a witch attacks him with her ladle in the space station. - Mnemonic by Matthias, almost 3 years ago | add a painting

死
=
匕
+
歹

匕

bi3 =
bi + Ø3

dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 匕

Brynhildr plays a game inside the space station using zero gravity: using a big ladle and a shovel as bats, she beats a banana back and forth. - Mnemonic by Matthias, almost 3 years ago | add a painting

Image by Matthias,
over 2 years ago

匕
=
丿
+
乚

丿

pie3 =
pi + e3

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3] | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 丿

Pocahontas (pi-) is watching a giant banana (丿) inside the Erectheion (-e3). - Mnemonic by Matthias, about 3 years ago | add a painting

Image by Matthias,
almost 3 years ago

Image by Matthias,
over 2 years ago

匕
=
丿
+
乚

乚

ya4 =
y + a4

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3] | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 乚

This character shall be represented by a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shovelling a grave in the Adziogol Lighthouse's bathroom (a4). - Mnemonic by Matthias, about 3 years ago | add a painting

Image by Matthias,
over 2 years ago

死
=
匕
+
歹

歹

dai3 =
d + ai3

bad / wicked / evil | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 歹

A wicked witch. Don Quixote is fighting two foes in the palace: A bat and a witch. Unfortunately, on that morning he brought a flute instead of a lance. - Mnemonic by Matthias, almost 3 years ago | add a painting

歹
=
一
+
夕

一

yi1 =
y + Ø1

one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 一

Maud Younger (y) plays her flute (一) in front of the space station (Ø1). - Mnemonic by Matthias, over 3 years ago | add a painting

Image by Matthias,
over 3 years ago

Image by Matthias,
over 2 years ago

歹
=
一
+
夕

夕

xi1 =
xi + Ø1

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4] | add a mnemonic for this meaning of 夕

A man dressed like a bat. - Mnemonic by Matthias, 6 months ago | add a painting

This one looks like a bat. Marie Curie goes out for a space walk in front of the space station in the evening. Suddenly, several space bats appear. - Mnemonic by Matthias, almost 3 years ago | add a painting

Stroke order

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死 appears as component in

毙屍斃

死 has no simplified variant.

HSK level: 4

Pronunciation: Gorodish elements and their mnemonics (what's this?)

s	Socrates. - Mnemonic by Matthias, over 2 years ago \| add a painting Image by Matthias, over 2 years ago
Ø3	"Ø3" is happening inside the space station. - Mnemonic by Matthias, about 3 years ago \| add a painting Image by Matthias, over 2 years ago

Words with 死

死 si3 亡 wang2		to die / death (HSK level 6)
死 si3 党 dang3		best friends / inseparable sidekick / diehard followers
死 si3 棋 qi2		dead piece (in Chess) / stupid move / hopeless case
死 si3 难 nan4 者 zhe3		victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
死 si3 水 shui3		stagnant water / backwater
死 si3 灰 hui1 复 fu4 燃 ran2		lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
视 shi4 死 si3 如 ru2 归 gui1		to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
垂 chui2 死 si3		dying
死 si3 心 xin1		to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
死 si3 讯 xun4		news of sb's death
安 an1 乐 le4 死 si3		euthanasia
生 sheng1 离 li2 死 si3 别 bie2		separated in life and death / to part for ever
该 gai1 死 si3		Damn it! / damned / wretched
死 si3 刑 xing2		death penalty
寻 xun2 死 si3		to attempt suicide / to court death
诈 zha4 死 si3		to feign death / to fake death
贪 tan1 生 sheng1 怕 pa4 死 si3		greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
宁 ning4 死 si3 不 bu4 屈 qu1		rather die than submit (idiom)
九 jiu3 死 si3 一 yi1 生 sheng1		nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape / new lease of life
死 si3 板 ban3		rigid / inflexible
死 si3 路 lu4		dead end / (fig.) at death's door / one foot in the grave
死 si3 里 li3 逃 tao2 生 sheng1		mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
坏 huai4 死 si3		necrosis
生 sheng1 死 si3 攸 you1 关 guan1		matter of life and death
鹿 lu4 死 si3 谁 shei2 手 shou3		to whom the deer falls (idiom); the one to emerge victor (i.e. to seize the empire) / prize winner / champion
死 si3 难 nan4		to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
死 si3 海 hai3		the Dead Sea
死 si3 因 yin1		cause of death
死 si3 伤 shang1		casualties / dead and injured
死 si3 囚 qiu2		prisoner that awaits execution / convict sentenced to death / someone on death row
死 si3 亡 wang2 率 lu:4		mortality rate
敢 gan3 死 si3 队 dui4		suicide squad / kamikaze unit
惨 can3 死 si3		to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
死 si3 气 qi4 沉 chen2 沉 chen2		dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
死 si3 鬼 gui3		devil / You devil! (as joke or insult) / the departed
救 jiu4 死 si3 扶 fu2 伤 shang1		to help the dying and heal the injured
生 sheng1 死 si3		life or death
濒 bin1 死 si3		nearing death / on the point of demise / approaching extinction
誓 shi4 死 si3		to pledge one's life
鱼 yu2 死 si3 网 wang3 破 po4		lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)