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归西
guī​xī

to pass away

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
归西 歸西 guī​xī
to pass away
to die; a polite way to refer to someone's death, literally meaning to return to the Western Paradise

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.720 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.024 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 去世 qù​shì

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)