死
sǐ HSK3

die

死 sǐ
die verb
to die; to pass away; to cease to live

他在那场事故中死了。

tā zài nà cháng shì​gù zhōng sǐ le.

He died in that accident.

extremely verb
extremely; to the highest degree; to death

今天真是累死了。

jīn​tiān zhēn shì lèi sǐ le.

I'm exhausted today.

inflexible verb
inflexible; rigid; fixed in place or thought

规矩是死的，人是活的。

guī​ju shì sǐ de, rén shì huó de.

Rules are rigid, but people are flexible.

damned verb
damned; cursed; used as a term of abuse or endearment

你这死孩子，又在调皮了。

nǐ zhèi sǐ hái​zi, yòu zài tiáo​pí le.

You brat, you're being naughty again.

impassable noun
impassable; uncrossable; blocked or closed off

这是一条死胡同，走不通。

zhè shì yī tiáo sǐ​hú​tòng, zǒu bù tōng.

This is a dead end; there's no way through.

Frequency
Character
Written text
317th most common 703.8 per million
Movie subtitles
114th most common 1521.2 per million appears in 97% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1313.3 per million appears in 92% of films
Written text
402.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6B7B

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)