死者 (ししゃ, shisha) Japanese meaning: dead person

死者 (ししゃ, shisha) Japanese meaning: dead person | Kotomora

Kanji

死し亡ぼう者しゃ
死者 is the general, often literary or journalistic word for the dead, while 死亡者 is the more formal, statistical term used in official reports and legal contexts.
故こ人じんN2
死者 is a neutral, direct term for a dead person, while 故人 carries a more respectful or memorial tone.
仏ほとけN2
死者 is a neutral, formal word for 'the dead,' whereas 仏 is a softer, euphemistic term used especially in Buddhist or respectful contexts.
死し人にんN1
死者 is the more formal word used in news reports and official statistics for the deceased, whereas 死人 is more everyday and can sound blunt.
犠ぎ牲せい者しゃ
死者 refers strictly to people who have died, while 犠牲者 can include the injured or otherwise harmed, not just the dead.

生せい者しゃ
死者 means a person who has died, while 生者 means a person who is alive, forming a classic contrastive pair as in 生者必滅.
生いき残のこり
死者 refers to those who died, the direct opposite of 生き残り, which refers to those who survived.

死し体たいN2
死者 refers to the deceased person in an abstract or statistical sense (e.g. casualty counts), while 死体 refers to the physical corpse itself.
使し者しゃ
死者 (the dead, deceased) is pronounced identically to 使者 (messenger, envoy) but has a completely unrelated meaning.

人にん
死者 is most often counted with 人 when giving casualty figures, as in 死者3人.
名めいN2
In formal news reports and official statistics, 死者 is often counted with the more formal counter 名 instead of 人.

Compound of 死 (し, 'death') and 者 (しゃ, 'person').