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It conveys meanings such as "emaciated bones" or "evil/bad."

When used as a radical, it generally conveys meanings related to death, injury, or harm, so most characters under this radical have negative or ominous meanings.
However, there are some exceptions with neutral meanings, such as 殊 (different), 殖 (to increase), and 殘 (to remain).
For example, the character 飱 (meaning "evening meal") has a neutral meaning, but the others like 殊, 殖, and 殘 originally related to meanings such as execution (beheading), old land, cruelty, or leftover remnants.
The character 殘 especially is used in words with negative connotations like 잔반 (leftover food) and 패잔병 (defeated soldiers), reinforcing the association with 歹 (the "death" radical).

#70 — square, direction

#71 — none, not exist

#72 — day, sun

#73 — to say, to speak

#74 — month, moon

#75 — tree, wood, wooden

#76 — yawn, deficiency

#77 — to stop, to cease, to halt

#78 — bare bones, the bones remaining after the meat has been cut away, bad

#79 — shu (an ancient Chinese weapon), a spear without a blade, a club

#80 — do not, don't, do not do, do not eat

#81 — to compare, to be side by side, to cling, to conspire, to connect

#82 — hair, fur

#83 — lineage, surname, clan

#84 — energy, air, vital force

#85 — water

#86 — fire, heat

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歹

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