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Originally, 死 combined the digging tool 歹 with a person 人 to represent the act of burying a person, and its earliest meaning was "to bury a person". This meaning later shifted to "die", and the character now primarily refers to death, dying, or the cessation of life. Beyond its literal sense, it is frequently used as an adverb or modifier to indicate that something is rigid, impassable, permanently fixed, or carried to an extreme and unalterable degree.
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我的宠物死了。
他害怕死亡。
这只鸟已经死了。
死亡是不可避免的。
他死死地抓住绳子。
面对死亡，他非常勇敢。
如果不喝水，你会渴死的。
尽管面临死亡威胁，他依然坚持自己的信念。
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