死

死
sǐ = s + Ø3
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
死 = 匕 + 歹 : Shakespeare is scared to death when suddenly a witch attacks him with her ladle in the space station.

死 character breakdown

匕
bǐ = bi + Ø3
dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon
匕 = 丿 + 乚 : Brunhilde plays a game inside the space station's living room (Ø3) using zero gravity: using a big ladle (mnemonic symbol for 匕) and a shovel (乚) as bats, she beats a banana (丿) back and forth.
歹
dǎi = d + ai3
bad / wicked / evil / Kangxi radical 78
歹 = 一 + 夕 : Mnemonic symbol: a wicked witch.

Don Quixote (d) is hypnotized by a wicked witch (歹) playing her flute (一) in the airplane (ai3). She's playing her magic flute in order to sedate Don Quixote, so that her bats (夕) can drink his blood.

Characters with 死 as component

毙
獘
bì = bi + Ø4
to collapse / variant of 斃|毙[bi4] / variant of 獙[bi4]
毙
斃
bì = bi + Ø4
to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death
葬
塟
zàng = z + ang4
old variant of 葬[zang4]
葬 = 艹 + 死 + 廾 : After Zorro (z) died (死) he was buried (葬) with his hands cuffed (廾) behind his back in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). A lot of artificial lawn (艹) has since grown on the grave.
葬
zàng = z + ang4
to bury (the dead) / to inter
葬 = 艹 + 死 + 廾 : After Zorro (z) died (死) he was buried (葬) with his hands cuffed (廾) behind his back in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). A lot of artificial lawn (艹) has since grown on the grave.
尸
屍
shi̅ = sh + Ø1
corpse
薨
ho̅ng = hu + (e)ng1
death of a prince / swarming

Words with 死

吊
死
death by hanging / to hang oneself
出
生
入
死
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
死
死
心
心
眼
眼
儿
兒
stubborn / obstinate / having a one-track mind
卡
死
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
厚
死
薄
生
lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)
去
死
go to hell! / drop dead!
勒
死
to strangle
刺
死
to stab to death
吊
死
鬼
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
哀
哀
莫
莫
大
大
于
於
心
心
死
死
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart / nothing is more wretched than apathy
哭
哭
得
得
死
死
去
去
活
活
来
來
to cry one's heart out

Sentences with 死

该
ga̅i
死
sǐ
的
de
 
 
该
ga̅i
死
sǐ
的
de
Damn it!