bì
kill
Phonosemantic compound. 死 represents the meaning and 比 represents the sound. Simplified form of 斃.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 毙
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to die | ||
to kill | ||
to shoot dead | ||
to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate | ||
to get killed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.3385% of movies
2080th most common character in movies
2534th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6BD9 |
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