Zi:死
死 [sǐ] die/death; 死亡 dead/doomed; 打死 kill; 闷死 choke; 杀死 murder; 死人 corpse; 死刑 capital punishment; 拼死 risk life/death
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►sǐ 死 {A} v. die ◆attr. ①implacable; deadly ②fixed; rigid; inflexible ③impassable; closed ‖ Lù gěi dụ̌ ∼ le. 路给堵∼了。 The road is jammed. ◆adv. ①to the death; desperately ②extremely ‖ ∼ yào miànzi ∼要面子 save face at all costs ◆suf. extremely ‖ ³xiū∼ 羞∼ embarrass terribly
The Shuōwén Seal form of 死(𣦸) sǐ ‘die/death’ combines 歹(𣦵) dǎi/è ‘bad (broken bones)’ and 人 rén ‘person’; formerly wr. 𠒁, with the old graph 𡰤(𡰮𣦵歹) dǎi/è, which suggests an old link to 尸(𡰣) shǐ ‘corpse’; cf. 屍.
Note: The SW gloss of 死(𣦸) sǐ ‘die/death’ puns on 澌 sī ‘dried up river’.
Note: In the modern form 死(𣦸) the old component 人 is changed to 匕(𠤎) huà ‘change (man upside-down)’, as in 化 huà ‘change’ (cf. 化); in old Ch. philosophies death is the ultimate change, experienced by those who transcend this world; cf. (HDZ) 化: 死 (孟子‧公孙丑下).
Compare: 匕 bǐ; 匕(𠤎) huà; 𠂈(殄) tiǎn; 屍 shī ‘corpse’.
Older graphs associated with 死 are said to depict a person kneeling beside the grave of a loved one.
Compare: 葬(𦸟) zàng ‘bury (a corpse)’.
HDZ: 死 : sǐ : (甲) 生人拜于朽骨之旁, 死之谊昭然矣; 生命终结 (ant. 生); 死刑; 拼死, 拼命; 为某事或某人而牺牲性命; 始终, 态度坚决; 固守, 抱着不放; 呆板, 不灵活; 不流通; 穷, 尽; 极甚; 过了期限, 失效; 失去知觉; 爱怜; 不可调和的; 尸 (尸体; 主, 主管 (cf. 屍));
►references: Guǎngyùn:249.04; Wieger:26h,118c; Karlgren:AD959,GSR558a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:2.1380.6; Mathews:5589; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:578.22; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:025.1.10; EDOC:1
►components: 歹匕
►Cantonese: sei/
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