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Die in Chinese

to die · HSK 4

死 sǐ

我忘了浇水,花都死了。 I forgot to water them, and the flowers all died.

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How do you say die in Chinese?

Die in Chinese is 死 (sǐ). You can also say 去世 (qù shì), 死亡 (sǐ wáng), 过去 (guò qu).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.