# 死 — Death

Frequency rank 180 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 調 (Investigate), less common than 選 (Choose).

- On’yomi: し
- Kun’yomi: し
- Radical: 歹 Death (Kangxi 78)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 6

The yakuza kneels in the dirt where the crows finished, works the hooked spoon down inside the cracked bone and scrapes the last of the marrow out into his own mouth.

In words:

- 死ぬ しぬ — to die
- 死 し — death;decease
- 死亡 しぼう — death,mortality

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