毙

bì

kill; die violent death

How to write 毙, stroke by stroke

to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death; to collapse; variant of 毙; variant of 獙

Pictophonetic: semantic 死 (death), phonetic 比

Made of 比 + 死

枪毙qiāng bìto execute by firing squad; to shoot dead; fig. to discard; to get rid of
击毙jī bìto kill; to shoot dead
毙命bì mìngto meet violent death; to get killed
坐以待毙zuò yǐ dài bìto sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
倒毙dǎo bìto fall dead
勒毙lēi bìto strangle or throttle to death
待毙dài bìto await death; to be a sitting duck
暴毙bào bìto die suddenly
酷毙kù bì(slang) awesome; cool; righteous
瘐毙yǔ bìto die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)
束手就毙shù shǒu jiù bìhands tied and expecting the worst
束手待毙shù shǒu dài bìto wait helplessly for death (idiom); to resign oneself to extinction

我要枪毙了他。
wǒ yào qiāng bì le tā 。
I need to kill him with a gun.
多行不义必自毙。
duō háng bú yì bì zì bì 。
Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.