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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
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  *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
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  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
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
to pass away / to die
HSK 3
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  *死* | 死* | *死
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
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  *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
to die / death
HSK 6
eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
HSK 7-9
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate
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
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
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
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
to pass away / to die
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
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  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
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
to wash out / (fig.) to cull / to weed out / to eliminate / to die out / to phase out
HSK 7-9
to die in tragic circumstances
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
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  *没* | 没* | *没
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate
(idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred
Chen Sheng (died 208 BC), Qin dynasty rebel, leader of the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 陳勝吳廣起義|陈胜吴广起义
to die
mold / matrix / pattern or die / Taiwan pr. [mo2 ju4]
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  *丧* | 丧* | *丧
to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc) / to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc) / to die / disappointed / discouraged
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  *卒* | 卒* | *卒
soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
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  *模* | 模* | *模
mold / die / matrix / pattern
Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days)
iron rod / zealous / die-hard
to pass away / to die
to objectify / (literary) to die
to die for one's country
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  *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 / to breathe one's last
to die / to pass away
to fall down / to decay / to fall from the sky / to die
to die by violence
words of the deceased / last words of the dying / wisdom of past sages
levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion
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  *亡* | 亡* | *亡
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased
dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
to die
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  *逝* | 逝* | *逝
(of flowing water or time) to pass by / to pass away; to die
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
to die
to die suddenly
iron and blood; (fig.) weapons and war; bloody conflict / (of a person) iron-willed and ready to die
to die young or prematurely / to come to a premature end / to be aborted prematurely
to obliterate / to die out / to disappear
to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill / (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc)
to die out / to wither away
a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
to die of illness
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  *毙* | 毙* | *毙
to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death
lit. to ascend to heaven / to die
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
to die of an illness
to ride the dragon / to die (of emperors and kings)
to die together in the name of love / to sacrifice oneself for love
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  *殒* | 殒* | *殒
(literary) to perish; to die
to help the dying and heal the injured
to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished
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  *夭* | 夭* | *夭
(bound form) to die prematurely (also pr. [yao3]) / (literary) (of vegetation) luxuriant
to die for a good cause
to lie down / to die
to die for a just cause
seriously ill and about to die
to die suddenly
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
lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
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  *殁* | 殁* | *殁
to end / to die
to die in battle
lit. not close one's eyes after dying (idiom) / fig. to die with an unresolved grievance
lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious
dying (from illness) / facing death / on one's deathbed
to die young / short-lived
to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost
mold / matrix / pattern or die
to die (Buddhism) / to return to Allah (Islam)
dying
lit. born in the morning and dying at dusk (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / transient
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
to die / to perish
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
rather die than submit (idiom)
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
to decline / to die out / decline and fall
to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member; to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
to die / death
to die without progeny / (offensive) may you die childless / may you be the last of your family line
to live or die / to exist or perish
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
to die / to pass away
final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
incisor / molar / screw die / threading die
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
to be killed for a righteous cause / to die a martyr

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