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to die / death
HSK 6
casualties / injuries and deaths
HSK 6
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate
HSK 7-9
to flee; to go into exile
HSK 7-9
the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)
to save from extinction / to save the nation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亡* | 亡* | *亡
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased
to die
to die out / to wither away
matter of life and death
to force into exile / to be exiled / in exile
to die in battle
at stake / in peril
to decline / to die out / decline and fall
to live or die / to exist or perish
to die out / conquered
the name remains, but the reality is gone (idiom)
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned / destitute and homeless
submit to me and prosper, or oppose me and perish
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亡* | 亡* | *亡
old variant of
(of a country) to perish / to be annexed / subjugation (to a foreign power)
fall (of an empire)
to have lost both one's parents
to fall to one's death
dispersed and lost
brain death
to die from excessive ejaculation
person and lute have both vanished (idiom) / death of a close friend
premature death
to go into exile
to die
brain death
to die young
to be defeated and dispersed
to drown
clinical death
to court disaster (idiom) / to dig one's own grave
to flourish and decay / rise and fall


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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