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病逝

to die of illness

病逝
bìngshì4th tone
Pinyin
bìngshì
Strokes
20
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 病逝

病逝 is written with 20 strokes (病: 10, 逝: 10). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

病 (illness) + 逝 (pass away) — formal, used in news.

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病逝 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

九月二十五日上午九点五十二分,音乐家刘欢在上海病逝,享年六十三岁。

At 9:52 a.m. on September 25, the musician Liu Huan died of illness in Shanghai, at the age of sixty-three.

Liu Huan, Who Sang the 2008 Beijing Olympics Theme 'You and Me,' Dies at 63

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