Illustration: In a quiet Japanese funeral hall, an open coffin contains the still body of an elderly adult dressed in a simple burial robe, eyes closed and hands resting together. White flowers surround the body inside the coffin, and a framed portrait of the same person stands nearby.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

死し人にん

shinin

dead person, corpse

Example sentences

  1. 久夫ひさおは死人しにんのように青あおざめた顔色かおいろをしていた。

    Hisao’s face was as pale as that of a corpse.

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  2. 彼女かのじょが死人しにんのように顔色かおいろが悪わるいのは長患ながわずらいのせいだ。

    Her deathly paleness is due to long illness.

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  3. イザナミは「最初さいしょの死人しにん」となり「死しの国くにを支配しはいする神かみ」となったが、「最初さいしょの死人しにん」が「死しの国くにを支配しはいする神かみ」となる話はなしは古代こだいエジプトのオシリスやインドのヤマなどにみられる。

    Izanami was 'the first mortal to die' and she became 'the goddess that rules the underworld,' but stories in which 'the first mortal to die' becomes 'the god who rules the underworld' can be seen in Osiris of Ancient Egypt and in Yama of India.

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Kanji in 死人

  • 死death; dieOnシKunしぬ・しに-
  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと

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