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  *走* | 走* | *走
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *去* | 去* | *去
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掛* | 掛* | *掛
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
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  *死* | 死* | *死
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
to pass away / to die
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *跌* | 跌* | *跌
to fall / to tumble / to trip / (of prices etc) to drop / Taiwan pr. [die2]
HSK 6
to die / death
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磨* | 磨* | *磨
to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
HSK 7-9
to pass away / to die
HSK 7-9
(of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall
HSK 7-9
(of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury
HSK 7-9
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate
HSK 7-9
to wash out / (fig.) to cull / to weed out / to eliminate / to die out / to phase out
HSK 7-9
to become extinct; to die out / to lose (sth abstract) completely / to exterminate
HSK 7-9
(of wind etc) to subside; to die down / to quell; to smooth over (a dispute etc) / to suppress (a rebellion etc)
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship)
HSK 7-9
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *疊* | 疊* | *疊
to fold / to fold over in layers / to furl / to layer / to pile up / to repeat / to duplicate
HSK 7-9
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  *沒* | 沒* | *沒
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate
to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death
lit. to ascend to heaven / to die
alas / alack / welladay / wellaway / to die
to die / to pass away
to take one's last breath / dying
to die
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亡* | 亡* | *亡
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased
dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
to defend one's property to the death / to cling obstinately to old habits / die-hard
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *逝* | 逝* | *逝
(of flowing water or time) to pass by / to pass away; to die
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *喪* | 喪* | *喪
to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc) / to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc) / to die / disappointed / discouraged
to die; to pass away
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *諜* | 諜* | *諜
to spy
(Buddhism) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (loanword from Sanskrit, abbr. for 涅槃那)
to die of illness or injury despite receiving medical help
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *熄* | 熄* | *熄
to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
to die young / short-lived
to fall down / to decay / to fall from the sky / to die
to die
to infuriate / to be furious / to die from an excess of anger
to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished
to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die
to die in battle
to look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夭* | 夭* | *夭
(bound form) to die prematurely (also pr. [yao3]) / (literary) (of vegetation) luxuriant
to elapse / to pass away / to die / demise
to die suddenly
to die / to depart this life (euphemism) / same as 去世
to die suddenly
to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member; to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes / to take sb down with oneself / to end in mutual destruction
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殞* | 殞* | *殞
(literary) to perish; to die
to die by violence
to obliterate / to die out / to disappear
to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歿* | 歿* | *歿
to end / to die
to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life / with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卒* | 卒* | *卒
soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
to die without a burial site / to die a pauper / a tragic end
to lie low (until the fuss dies down)
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
to die / to perish
to die young / (Tw) (curse word) drop dead / go to hell / (literary) short life and long life
to live or die / to exist or perish
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to die without progeny / (offensive) may you die childless / may you be the last of your family line
to die of old age
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
to be scared of dying
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
(literary) person who dies for their country / martyr to the national cause
to die young
to die (Buddhism) / to return to Allah (Islam)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殤* | 殤* | *殤
to die in childhood / war dead
to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
to be killed for a righteous cause / to die a martyr
ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom); bad old practices die hard
without concealing anything / to pass away / to die
to die in the course of performing one's duty (idiom)
to die
(Buddhism) to go to the Western Paradise / (fig.) to die
(coll.) to die / to kick the bucket
to pass away / to die
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斃* | 斃* | *斃
to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death
to fly on a crane / to die
to die
to die / to breathe one's last
(of an emperor) to die
to die young or prematurely / to come to a premature end / to be aborted prematurely
(literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition
to decline / to die out / decline and fall
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short

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