屍 (si1 | shi1) : dead body

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屍

si1

shi1

[1] dead body; corpse; remains; carcass
[2] hold/occupy a position without doing one's duty

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Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 9

Level: 3

Radical: 尸 (#44)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

屍 / 尸

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 14th Nov 2009 08:18

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屍首 si1 sau2 shi1 shou3 = a corpse; a cadaver

屍體 si1 tai2 shi1 ti3 = a dead body; a corpse; a cadaver

死屍 sei2 si1 = cadaver; corpse; stiff

屍身 si1 san1 = a corpse

回魂屍 wui4 wan4 si1 = a revenant, a reanimated corpse

行屍走肉 haang4 si1 zau2 juk6 = zombie

動物屍體 dung6 mat6 si1 tai2 = carcass

焦屍 ziu1 si1 = a charred body

燒屍 siu1 si1 = setting sb's body alight

驗屍 jim6 si1 = [n] a postmortem examination, an autopsy; [v] to conduct an autopsy
See all 27 compounds (CantoDict reports 30 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 1 example containing 屍

個差人喺車尾廂搵到個屍體粵
The policeman found the body in the car's trunk.
[Lit. [counter] policeman at car-trunk find-arrive [counter] dead-body In this example, 喺車尾廂 cannot go at the end of the sentence. (Why?)]

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Decimal representation of this word: 屍
Unicode code for this character: U+5c4d (off-site link)

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