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死
Mandarin · pinyin sǐ
Meanings
- to die
- impassable
- uncrossable
- inflexible
- rigid
- extremely
- damned
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- 死
- sǐ · die; dead; death
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Mandarin tones
3 · si3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sei2 · si2
Cantonese word readings for 死. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- die; death — (intransitive) to die
- die; death — (intransitive) to die — (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, transitive) to die for the sake of; to sacrifice oneself for; to die together with someone
- die; death — (only in compounds) deadly; fatal; killing; to the death
- die; death — inactive
- (colloquial) Used as intensifier. — (colloquial) very; bloody; totally
- (colloquial) Used as intensifier. — (offensive) damned; damn
- (colloquial) Used as intensifier. — (slang, offensive) to disappear; to go; (as in "where the hell did ... go")
- (colloquial) Used as intensifier. — (Cantonese) awful
- (Cantonese, Southern Min) persistently; stubbornly
- (Southern Min) closely; firmly; tightly
- (Cantonese) screwed
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