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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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  *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
to pass away / to die
HSK 3
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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 die / death
HSK 6
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
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  *死* | 死* | *死
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
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
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
Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨
lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious
to pass away / to die
HSK 7-9
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
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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
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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
to die
Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days)
to meet with disaster / to die tragically
to die / to pass away
ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom); bad old practices die hard
to die / lit. to visit Marx / to pass away
die-hard fan
to die / to depart this life (euphemism) / same as 去世
(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 die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes / to take sb down with oneself / to end in mutual destruction
to die an untimely death (idiom) / to be cut off in one's prime
final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
(idiom) to die in battle
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
dying
to pass away / to die
dying / at one's last gasp
die (printing, metalwork etc)
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  *亡* | 亡* | *亡
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased
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  *模* | 模* | *模
mold / die / matrix / pattern
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  *没* | 没* | *没
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate
to die / to depart this mortal coil
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short
(Buddhism) to go to the Western Paradise / (fig.) to die
lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die
(of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall
HSK 7-9
to succeed or die trying (idiom)
to lie down / to die
to wash out / (fig.) to cull / to weed out / to eliminate / to die out / to phase out
HSK 7-9
afraid to die (contemptuous term)
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate
HSK 7-9
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  *卒* | 卒* | *卒
soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
to live out one's life / to die
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to die in the line of duty
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 freeze to death / to die off in winter
to die out / to wither away
to live or die / to exist or perish
to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death
(Buddhism) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (loanword from Sanskrit, abbr. for 涅槃那)
variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die
to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death
rather die than submit (idiom)
dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
(neologism c. 2020) (slang) to die of embarrassment (figuratively)
the name of various newspapers, notably Le Monde (France), El Mundo (Spain) and Die Welt (Germany)
to ride the dragon / to die (of emperors and kings)
Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention
until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life / unto one's dying day
(dialect) (loanword) to die; to give up the ghost
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
to help the dying and heal the injured
to die / to drop dead
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
(idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred
mold / matrix / pattern or die / Taiwan pr. [mo2 ju4]
to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished
lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉 (idiom) / fig. to die / to meet one's end
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
to die
premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young
to decline / to die out / decline and fall
to die / to breathe one's last
to die young / (Tw) (curse word) drop dead / go to hell / (literary) short life and long life
to die for a good cause
to die without progeny / (offensive) may you die childless / may you be the last of your family line
die-hard (fan etc)
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
to look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die
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 of illness
to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost
without concealing anything / to pass away / to die
final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
to leave this world / to die
to die
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
to die

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