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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

吊死

diàosǐ

death by hanging

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

death by hanging

02

to hang oneself

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 吊死 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吊死 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

革命的时候他被吊死了。gé mìng de shí hòu tā bèi diào sǐ le。

He was hanged during the Revolution.

如果非要我当你的丈夫,我宁愿上吊死在第一棵树上。rú guǒ fēi yào wǒ dāng nǐ de zhàng fū, wǒ nìng yuàn shàng diào sǐ zài dì yī kē shù shàng。

If I had to be your husband, I'd rather hang myself on the first tree.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 吊死.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吊死.

Directly before

  • 被吊死1
  • 上吊死1

Directly after

  • 吊死了1
  • 吊死在1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 吊死

What does 吊死 mean in Chinese?

吊死 (diàosǐ) means death by hanging.

How do you pronounce 吊死?

吊死 is pronounced diàosǐ.

Is 吊死 an HSK word?

吊死 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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