屍
corpse
9 strokes.
Readings
- しかばね (kun reading): 屍 (しかばね) corpse; 生ける屍 (いけるしかばね) living corpse
- シ (on reading): 死屍累々 (ししるいるい) heaps of corpses all around; 屍鬼 (しき) vetala
Components
- 尸
- 死
- 一 radical one
- 匕 radical spoon
- 夕 radical evening
- 尸 radical corpse; flag
- 歹 radical death; bare bone
Words using 屍
- 屍 (しかばね) corpse
- 生ける屍 (いけるしかばね) living corpse
- 屍をさらす (しかばねをさらす) to die on the battlefield
- 死屍累々 (ししるいるい) heaps of corpses all around
- 屍鬼 (しき) vetala
- 屍姦 (しかん) necrophilia
- 屍陀林王 (しだりんおう) Citipati (skeletal Buddhist demi-gods)
- 屍蝋 (しろう) adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture)
- 水漬く屍 (みづくかばね) dead bodies submerged in water (in war, esp. naval battles)
16 words in all.