death

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates as a pictograph depicting human bones or a corpse, embodying the concept of death and decay. It is used to form characters related to death, corpses, or mortality.

Mnemonic: The shape resembles human bones—the death radical marks all characters tied to loss and mortality.

• 歹dǎi🔊

  bad

  4 strokes

• 歺cān🔊

  second-round simplified character for 餐[can1]

  5 strokes

• 死sǐ🔊

  to die

  HSK 3

  6 strokes

• 歼jiān🔊

  to annihilate

  7 strokes

• 歾mò🔊

  to end

  8 strokes

• 殁mò🔊

  to end

  8 strokes

• 残cán🔊

  to destroy

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 殂cú🔊

  to die

  9 strokes

• 殃yāng🔊

  calamity

  9 strokes

• 殄tiǎn🔊

  to exterminate

  9 strokes

• 殆dài🔊

  (literary) dangerous; perilous

  9 strokes

• 殇shāng🔊

  to die in childhood

  9 strokes

• 殈xù🔊

  damage egg so it does not hatch

  10 strokes

• 殉xùn🔊

  to be buried with the dead

  10 strokes

• 殊shū🔊

  (literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass

  10 strokes

• 殓liàn🔊

  to prepare a dead body for coffin

  11 strokes

• 殍piǎo🔊

  (literary) to die of starvation

  11 strokes

• 殑qíng🔊

  swoon

  11 strokes

• 殒yǔn🔊

  (literary) to perish; to die

  11 strokes

• 㱩dú🔊

  abortion

  12 strokes

• 殖zhí🔊

  to grow

  12 strokes

• 殗yè🔊

  sickness

  12 strokes

• 殙hūn🔊

  to die by taking poison

  12 strokes

• 殚dān🔊

  entirely

  12 strokes

• 殛jí🔊

  to put to death

  12 strokes

• 㱮huì🔊

  to fester; to ulcerate (old variant of 潰|溃[hui4])

  13 strokes

• 殜dié🔊

  unwell

  13 strokes

• 𣨼tì🔊

  fatigue

  13 strokes

• 殠chòu🔊

  variant of 臭[chou4]

  14 strokes

• 殡bìn🔊

  a funeral

  14 strokes

• 殣jìn🔊

  die of hunger

  15 strokes

• 殥yín🔊

  (archaic) remote area

  15 strokes

• 殪yì🔊

  to exterminate

  16 strokes