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シニ
Meanings
Noun
1. dying; death
2. dead; useless
Prefix
3. damned
Alt. forms
死しに
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シニ
Pitch accent
シ
ニ
Used in: 20
Composed of
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
Used in vocabulary (28 in total)
desperation; struggle to the death
losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover; lame duck; hopeless situation
at the point of death; almost dead; about to die; at some limit (pain, hunger, etc.)
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Examples (11 in total)
She wept over her son's death.
I was surprised at John's death.
She is grieved at her husband's death.
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