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The kanji 死: meaning, readings and stroke order
死
- Meaning
- die
- On reading
- シ shi
- Kun reading
- し（ぬ） shinu
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 歹 death, decay
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- chết (tử)
- Japanese
- しぬ。いのちが おわる。
- Korean
- 죽다 (사)
- Chinese
- 死
Readings, words and example sentences
シ shi · on reading · less common
生死
life and death
冬の 木は 生死が 分かりにくいです。
In winter, it is hard to tell if a tree is alive or dead.
し（ぬ） shinu · kun reading
死ぬ
to die
はこの 中の 虫が 死んで いました。
The bug in the box had died.
Practise writing 死 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 死 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 3 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.