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死亡

sǐ wáng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

死亡 (sǐ wáng) means "to die". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 死亡 means

1. to die
2. death

The characters in 死亡

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 亡wángto die; to lose; to be gone

Example sentences

• 他害怕死亡。
  He is afraid of death.
• 没人能逃避死亡。
  Nobody can avoid death.
• 爱情比死亡更强大。
  Love is more powerful than death.
• 他因交通事故死亡。
  He lost his life in a traffic accident.
• 他们一个一个死亡。
  They died one after another.
• 死亡就如同做梦一样。
  Sǐwáng jiù rútóng zuòmèng yīyàng.
  Death is like dreaming.

Words starting with 死亡

• 死亡率sǐ wáng lǜmortality rate
• 死亡人数sǐ wáng rén shùnumber of people killed; death toll
• 死亡笔记sǐ wáng bǐ jìDeath note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大场鸫

Words containing 死亡

• 脑死亡nǎo sǐ wángbrain death
• 大脑死亡dà nǎo sǐ wángbrain death
• 临床死亡lín chuáng sǐ wángclinical death

Where 死亡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · sǐ–sù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sǐ wáng correctly.
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