逝
shì HSK7

pass away

逝 shì
to pass by verbadjective
(bound form) to pass by or flow away; used to describe the movement of time or flowing water
to die verb
(bound form) to pass away; a respectful way to refer to someone dying, or a literary term for, someone's death

前一阵子，一位朋友问我是否会为一位名人逝世而哭泣。

qián​yī​zhèn​zi, yī wèi péng​you wèn wǒ shì​fǒu huì wèi yī wèi míng​rén shì shì ér kū​qì.

A while ago, a friend asked me if I would ever cry over a celebrity death.

to fly high
(literary) to fly away or soar high

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,102nd most common 31.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,087th most common 16.7 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.85 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
11.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+901D

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