Keyword
to die
- to kill
- to die a violent death
- Frequency
- #2448
- Strokes
- 10
Readings
bì
Mnemonic
死 (death) gives the meaning and 比 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
击毙
to kill; to shoot dead
毙
to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death; to collapse
枪毙
to execute by firing squad; to shoot dead; fig. to discard; to get rid of
毙命
to meet violent death; to get killed
暴毙
to die suddenly
坐以待毙
to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
倒毙
to fall dead
多行不义必自毙
persisting in evil brings about self-destruction (idiom)
酷毙
(slang) awesome; cool; righteous
束手待毙
to wait helplessly for death (idiom); to resign oneself to extinction
勒毙
to strangle or throttle to death
待毙
to await death; to be a sitting duck