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Jyutping zou2 sei2
Pinyin zǎo sǐ

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to die while still relatively young
  2. to have been dead (for some years)
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb
    to die young; to meet an untimely death
  2. verb
    to have passed away
    (syn.) 死人, 傾亡, 故世, 升天, 斃命, 入寂, 呜呼, 死脱, 故, 翹辮子, 离世, 過身, 上路, 下世, 歸道山, 身亡, 倾亡, 物化, 回老家, 丧命, 作古, 闭眼, 消忒, 病故, 亡故, 驾鹤西游, 就义, 過去, 走去踮, 盡命, 倾世, 凋謝, 丧生, 毕命, 被難, 走, 棄世, 過往, 陨落, 駕崩, 归天, 歸西, 不在, 仙游, 終, 过去, 圓寂, 去世, 宾天, 枯死, 見背, 進棺材, 過世, 百年歸老, 过世, 死, 駕鶴西遊, 薨逝, 长眠, 归西, 被难, 長眠, 嗝屁, 嗚呼, 崩殂, 崩, 翘辫子, 閉眼, 龍馭上賓, 归道山, 歸天, 弃世, 晏驾, 隕落, 故去, 死掉, 辭世, 终, 傾世, 驾鹤西去, 合眼, 沒世, 挂, 死翹翹, 病逝, 丧亡, 寿终正寝, 見閻王, 掛, 绝, 往生, 毙命, 仙逝, 長山賣鴨卵, 嚥氣, 殞, 死脫, 晏駕, 駕鶴西去, 老了, 仙遊, 凋谢, 忽然, 咽气, 上天, 尽命, 进棺材, 见阎王, 气绝, 小喇叭儿吹了, 不幸, 喪命, 薨, 见背, 就義, 永眠, 驾崩, 辞世, 賓天, 畢命, 氣絕, 小喇叭兒吹了, 做鬼, 喪生, 龙驭上宾, 死去, 安息, 即世, 死翘翘, 過面, 过往, 安眠, 離世, 圆寂, 死亡, 长山卖鸭卵, 殒, 喪亡, 壽終正寢, 百年归老, 絕, 过身, 逝世, 过面, 没世
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    佢做咗十七年人,先知原来佢生父一早死咗;佢系俾养父母凑大嘅。
    佢做咗十七年人,先知原來佢生父一早死咗;佢係俾養父母湊大嘅。
    keoi5 zou6 zo2 sap6 cat1 nin4 jan4, sin1 zi1 jyun4 loi4 keoi5 sang1 fu6 jat1 zou2 sei2 zo2; keoi5 hai6 bei2 joeng5 fu6 mou5 cau3 daai6 ge3.
    • 他活了十七年,才知道他的生父原來一早死了;他是養父母養大的。
    • Not until he was seventeen did he realise that his biological father had died long ago and that he was raised by his foster parents.
  2. Cantonese
    佢咁样瞓医院挨咗几年,最后咪又系拉柴,不如早死早著好过。
    佢咁樣瞓醫院捱咗幾年,最後咪又係拉柴,不如早死早著好過。
    • To stay in hospital for all those years, he got nothing but death, may be die straight away from the start would feel better.
  3. Cantonese
    早死早着啦你!
    早死早着啦你!
    zou2 sei2 zou2 zoek6 laa1 nei5!
    • Go to hell!
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    还不睡觉?你这么修仙,迟早死掉。
    還不睡覺?你這麼修仙,遲早死掉。
    hái bù shuì jiào ? nǐ zhè me xiū xiān , chí zǎo sǐ diào .
    • Still not going to bed? Staying up late will make you die sooner or later.