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归天
guī​tiān

to pass away

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
归天 歸天 guī//tiān
to pass away
to pass away; to die; a polite or euphemistic way to refer to someone's death

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.271 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 仙逝 xiān​shì
  • 仙游 xiān​yóu
  • 逝世 shì​shì
  • 死亡 sǐ​wáng
  • 亡故 wáng​gù

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)