Radical ⽍ (78)

歹¹

Shortening of 死 used in compound glyphs as a semantic DIE.

歹²

Yuan	Yuan	Ming	Qing
蒙古字韻 [ꡊ]	南村綴耕錄	字彙	內本康熙

{歹} ꜂taj “bad”

Graphical borrowing of the Tibetan letter ཏ /ta/ or ʼPhags-pa letter ꡊ /da/.

• 徐復 1944 - 𣦶字源出藏文說
• 李思純 1957 - 江村十論・說歹
• 路修遠 2017 - 「歹」字辨

Shang (Yuanti)	Shang (Huadong)	Early W.Zhou	Late W.Zhou	Qin	W.Han	W.Han	E.Han	Nanbei (N.Wei)	Tang	Qing
合21890	花21	集4179	集4438.2	睡.日乙150	馬.經19上	北.老101	五.木牘291B	南0261X	五經文字	內本康熙

{死} *sijʔ “to die” (& {葬} *tsˤaŋs “to bury”)

Either 歺 SHOVEL + 人 PERSON (created for {死}) or 人 PERSON + ♪歺 *TSAŊ (created for {葬} and later began to be used for {死}; in early script some glyphs were used for both words {葬} and {死}).

• 張昂 2024 - 說“死”“葬”

Forms:

歹 - Shortening used in compound glyphs as a semantic.