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冤死 (yuān sǐ): meaning and stroke order

冤死 (yuān sǐ) means to suffer an unjust death.

冤死

Simplified
冤死
Traditional
冤死 (same form)
Pinyin
yuān sǐ

Stroke order of 冤死

冤

  • yuān injustice; grievance
  • yuān old variant of 冤[yuan1]
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 寃

Stroke by stroke

死

  • sǐ to die; impassable
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 冤死

  1. yuān sǐ
    • to suffer an unjust death

Radicals of the characters

冤
Radical 冖 (Kangxi radical 14) · 10 strokes · 冖 on top, 兔 below
死
Radical 歹 (Kangxi radical 78) · 6 strokes · built from 歹 and 匕

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

冤死 in our stories

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  • 他在书里反复强调，人命关天，官员判案的时候，哪怕只错一点点，也可能让一个无辜的人冤死。

    tā zài shū lǐ fǎnfù qiángdiào rénmìng guāntiān guānyuán pàn àn de shíhou nǎpà zhǐ cuò yìdiǎndiǎn yě kěnéng ràng yí gè wúgū de rén yuānsǐ

    Throughout the book he stressed that human life is paramount: when an official judges a case, even the smallest error can send an innocent person to an unjust death.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 冤死

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).