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    3. 死線

    死線

    死し線せん

    borderline between life and death

    KMT10News #42+1NounMedicine & HealthKanji Vocab21 strokes

    しせん

    Noun

    1.
    borderline between life and death, verge of death
    2.
    deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)

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    彼かれは死し線せんをさまよった。

    He wandered on the borderline between life and death.

    KMT10Medicine & Health
    医い者しゃたちは患かん者じゃを死し線せんから救すくい出だした。

    The doctors saved the patient from the verge of death.

    KMT10Medicine & Health
    多おおくの兵へい士しが死し線せんを越こえて戦せん場じょうから生せい還かんした。

    Many soldiers crossed the line of death and returned alive from the battlefield.

    KMT10MilitaryEmotions & Psychology
    集しゅう中ちゅう治ち療りょう室しつで、彼かの女じょは死し線せんと闘たたかっていた。

    In the intensive care unit, she was fighting on the verge of death.

    KMT10Medicine & Health
    事じ故この後あと、彼かれは数すう日じつ間かん、死し線せんをさまよったが、奇き跡せき的てきに回かい復ふくした。

    After the accident, he hovered on the brink of death for several days, but miraculously recovered.

    KMT10Medicine & HealthEmotions & Psychology

    Kanji that make up this word

    死
    し.ぬ・し.に-…(1)
    death・die
    線
    すじ…(1)
    line・track
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