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亡: deceased, the late

Also: dying, perish

JLPT N33 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

亠 carries the meaning · 匸 is drawn in

3 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

ボウbou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 亡霊ぼうれいghost, departed spirits
  • 存亡そんぼうlife or death
  • 未亡人みぼうじんwidow
  • 亡命するぼうめいするflee one's country, defect
  • 死亡するしぼうするdie
  • 逃亡するとうぼうするescape [v.i.]
  • 滅亡するめつぼうするfall, be ruined, collapse

モウmou · on'yomi

  • 亡者もうじゃthe dead

ないnai · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 亡くすなくすlose (a loved one)
  • 亡くなるなくなるpass away

なき-naki- · kun'yomi

  • 亡き母なきははone's deceased mother

Also read ほろびる, ほろぶ, ほろぼす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a heavy wooden lid being placed on top of a bubbling iron pot—that's nabebuta! When you see this radical at the top of a kanji, think of something that sits on top, covers, or crowns a structure.”
More in the 亠 lid story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亠

Also built on lid (亠)

All 24
匸

Also built on box (匸)

All 4

亡 gives its sound to

The family reading is ボウ (bou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ボウ

31 kanji share this on'yomiAll 31

Also read モウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
亡 deceased · 匸
vs之 of
亡 adds 匸.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wáng

Same form: 亡 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
亡 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
亡 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin wáng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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