Chinese symbol for “dying”
垂死
chuí sǐ
dying
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dying is 垂死 (chuí sǐ), defined as: dying.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “dying”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奄奄一息 | yǎn yǎn yī xī | dying; at one's last gasp |
| 临危 (臨危) | lín wēi | dying (from illness); facing death |
| 气绝 (氣絕) | qì jué | to take one's last breath; dying |
| 不行了 | bù xíng le | (coll.) on the point of death; dying |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 垂死.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 垂直 | chuí zhí | perpendicular; vertical |
| 下垂 | xià chuí | to droop; to sag |
| 垂青 | chuí qīng | to show appreciation for sb; to look upon sb with favor |
| 垂钓 (垂釣) | chuí diào | angling |
| 垂涎 | chuí xián | to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to desire greedily |
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | to die; death |
| 杀死 (殺死) | shā sǐ | to kill |
| 死刑 | sǐ xíng | death penalty; capital punishment |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dying”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.