CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

致死

zhìsǐ

to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 致死 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 致死 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

大爆炸致死六人。dà bào zhà zhì sǐ liù rén。

The huge explosion killed six people.

过去一百多年，澳大利亚共有二十七例蜘蛛咬人致死的记录。guò qù yì bǎi duō nián， ào dà lì yà gòng yǒu èr shí qī lì zhī zhū yǎo rén zhì sǐ de jì lù。

Over the last hundred years, there have been twenty-seven recorded deaths from spider bites in Australia.

若有人争斗，一人以石头或拳头打了邻人，虽未致死，却使其卧床不起：若其后能起身、扶杖行走於外，则打人者可免於刑责，但须赔偿对方因此耽误的工钱，并承担其医治的费用。ruò yǒu rén zhēng dòu， yī rén yǐ shí tou huò quán tou dǎ le lín rén， suī wèi zhì sǐ， què shǐ qí wò chuáng bù qǐ： ruò qí hòu néng qǐ shēn、 fú zhàng xíng zǒu yú wài， zé dǎ rén zhě kě miǎn yú xíng zé， dàn xū péi cháng duì fāng yīn cǐ dān wù de gōng qián， bìng chéng dān qí yī zhì de fèi yòng。

If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 致死.

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

Directly before

连击致死1
咬人致死1
爆炸致死1
虽未致死1

Directly after

致死的1
致死六人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 致死

What does 致死 mean in Chinese?

致死 (zhìsǐ) means to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly.

How do you pronounce 致死?

致死 is pronounced zhìsǐ.

Is 致死 an HSK word?

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

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