Kanji

屍

屍

corpse

Kanji

Grade

Secondary School

Strokes

9 strokes

Radical

尸部

On'yomi (Chinese Reading)

シ

Kun'yomi (Japanese Reading)

しかばね

Example sentences

屍 しかばね
戦場 に は 多く の 屍 が 転がっていた 。

There were many corpses lying on the battlefield.

屍山血河 しざんけつが
激戦地 と なった その 城 の 周囲 は 、 まさに 屍山血河 の 惨状 であった 。

The area around the castle that became a battlefield was truly a scene of carnage.

Example Vocabulary

屍

しかばね

corpse; dead body

死屍累々

ししるいるい

屍体

したい

生ける屍

いけるしかばね

屍肉

しにく

屍を晒す

しかばねをさらす

屍山血河

しざんけつが

a scene of carnage; mountains of corpses and rivers of blood

屍骸

しがい

死屍

しし

屍蝋

しろう

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