Shit! You scared me half to death!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
该死
Damn it!
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
Damn it!
02
damned
03
wretched
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 该死 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 该死 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Shit! You scared me half to death!
Is it right for a doctor to decide when someone should die?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 该死.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 该死.
Directly before
- 何时该死1
Directly after
- 该死的3
- 该死是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 该死
What does 该死 mean in Chinese?
该死 (gāisǐ) means Damn it!.
How do you pronounce 该死?
该死 is pronounced gāisǐ.
Is 该死 an HSK word?
该死 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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