殞命

殒命
yǔnmìng
  1. to die
  2. to perish

CEDICT

  1. (literary) to meet one's death; to perish
  2. to meet one's death; to perish

Wiktionary

喪失生命。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 殞 yǔn (literary) to perish; to die
2 命 mìng
  1. life
  2. fate
  3. order or command
  4. to assign a name, title etc

Related entries

一命嗚呼 yīmìngwūhū
  1. to die (idiom)
  2. to breathe one's last
  3. to give up the ghost
下世 xiàshì
  1. to die
  2. future incarnation
  3. next life
  4. to be born
  5. to come into the world
  6. future generation
丟命 diūmìng to die
亡 wáng
  1. to die
  2. to lose
  3. to be gone
  4. to flee
  5. deceased
从古到今，没有过不灭亡的国家。

There has never been a nation that was not eventually destroyed.

Source: Tatoeba

亡故 wánggù
  1. to die
  2. to pass away
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