The Chinese Radical: 死


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to die, impassable    死

Explanation inflexible

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
to die, impassable, inflexible

bad, wicked 歹 (= vertebrae or rib) and sitting person 匕 under the ground 一
If the bones of the sitting person are under the earth, this means: to die.  
JLPT HSK 6
to bury (the dead), to inter
zàng
From top: plant 艹, death 死 (If already under the earth 一 the bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕 are, this means to die.), plant 艹
Between plants the dead is buried.  
JLPT no HSK
to die violently

Top: compare 比 (two sitting persons 匕), bottom: death 死 (If already under the earth 一 the bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕 are, this means to die.)
In comparison, his death was violently.  

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