Keyword
death
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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KankenLevel 8
Heisig878
Readings
し
(96%)
じ
(1%)
しに
(1%)
Composed of
bone remains
spoon
Mnemonic

Long after your death the only thing left of you will be your bone remains. And maybe your spoon, if it was made out of metal.

Used in kanji (4 in total)
funeral
corpse
die violent death
death of a nobleman
Used in vocabulary (657 in total)
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
Examples (200 in total)
To live is to die.
Surely, they were that desperate.
Our companions are fighting desperately.