死 Strokes Write it Listen 死 sǐ to die; impassable; uncrossable HSK 3 6 strokes Radical 歹 Ideograph 5 words Built from歹dǎicorpse; death; evil, depraved, wicked匕bǐspoon, ladle; knife, dirk How it worksA person kneeling 匕 before a corpse 歹.