斃 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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bì

kill

Phonosemantic compound. 死 represents the meaning and 敝 represents the sound.

Components

死 Meaning component

sǐ

die

敝 Sound component

bì

worn out

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

bì

kill; die violent death; to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death

Most common words with 斃

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	毙	to die
	击毙	to kill
	枪毙	to shoot dead
	坐以待毙	to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
	毙命	to get killed

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[b]e[t]-s	bjiejH	bì	fall down (from wound or illness)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.3385% of movies

2080th most common character in movies

2534th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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