亡

音読おんよみ: ボウ・モウ

訓読くんよみ:くなる

画数かくすう: 3 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 亠(なべぶた)

Meaning

Death / Perish / Disappear / Lose

  • 亡命ぼうめい — exile / defection
  • 死亡しぼう — death
  • 亡霊ぼうれい — ghost
  • くなる — to die / pass away
  • 亡者もうじゃ — the deceased
  • 亡国ぼうこく — ruined nation

亡 combines the lid radical 亠 with a person-like element, conveying disappearance or loss. It evolved to represent death and ruin, as well as figurative loss such as ruin of a state.

亡 combines the lid radical 亠 with a person-like form, showing something disappearing or lost. Over time it came to mean death, ruin, or figurative loss.

命
Creates
亡命ぼうめい — exile / defection
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