Kanji 屍 Words: Meanings and Readings

屍体

したい

dead body

尸

かばね

corpse

屍骸

しがい

(dead) body

検屍

けんし

examination of a body to determine if a crime has been committed

屍をさらす

しかばねをさらす

to die on the battlefield

屍姦

しかん

necrophilia

屍山血河

しざんけつが

heaps of bodies and streams of blood

屍臭

ししゅう

putrid smell of a corpse

屍陀林王

しだりんおう

Citipati (skeletal Buddhist demi-gods)

屍体愛好

したいあいこう

necrophilia

屍毒

しどく

ptomaine poisoning

屍肉

しにく

dead flesh

屍斑

しはん

postmortem lividity

屍蝋

しろう

adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture)

死屍

しし

corpse

死屍累々

ししるいるい

heaps of corpses all around

生ける屍

いけるしかばね

living corpse

僵屍

キョンシー

jiangshi

尸諌

しかん

admonishing (one's master) at the cost of one's life