Dead men tell no tales.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
死人
dead person
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
dead person
02
(coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 死人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 死人 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Dead men tell no tales.
Jesus is said to have raised a man from the dead.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 死人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 死人.
Directly before
- 一个死人1
Directly after
- 死人无法1
- 死人是1
- 死人复活1
- 死人不会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 死人
What does 死人 mean in Chinese?
死人 (sǐrén) means dead person.
How do you pronounce 死人?
死人 is pronounced sǐrén.
Is 死人 an HSK word?
死人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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