毙
bì HSK7

kill

毙 (斃) bì frequency
die verb
to die; to fall forward dead

那个恶霸多行不义必自毙。

nà gè è​bà duō xíng bù​yì bì zì bì.

A wicked person will eventually be destroyed by their own evil deeds.

reject verb
to reject or veto (e.g. a manuscript or proposal)

我的稿子又被毙了。

wǒ de gǎo​zi yòu bèi bì le.

My manuscript was rejected again.

shoot dead verb
to shoot dead; to execute by shooting

如果不听警告，就把他毙了。

rú​guǒ bù tīng jǐng​gào, jiù bǎ tā bì le.

If he doesn't heed the warning, execute him.

to death verb
used as a suffix meaning to death or extremely

最近真是忙毙了。

zuì​jìn zhēn shì máng bì le.

I've been incredibly busy lately.

毙 (獘) bì
collapse verb
to collapse

那匹老马在荒漠中力竭而毙。

nà pǐ lǎo mǎ zài huāng​mò zhōng lì​jié ér bì.

The old horse died of exhaustion in the desert.

Cross-References

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,534th most common 18.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,080th most common 16.9 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.3 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
4.74 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
斃
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6BD9

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