ボウ, モウ, な.い, な.き-, ほろ.びる, ほろ.ぶ, ほろ.ぼす
deceased, the late, dying, perish

This kanji has 3 strokes: 2 in the "lid" radical (なべぶた) and a single other stroke.

Sample compounds (19) :


  1. ない
    dead
  2. しで
    なしで
    without
  3. ぼす
    ほろぼす
    to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin
  4. くなす
    なくなす
    to lose someone, wife, child, etc

  5. ぼうしつ
    loss

  6. なきひと
    the deceased

  7. こうぼう
    rise and fall, ups & downs

  8. ぼうくん
    one's deceased lord

  9. ぼうこく
    ruined country

  10. ぼうさい
    one's late wife

  11. ぼうふ
    deceased wife, deceased lady

  12. ぼうし
    dead child

  13. なきあと
    after one's death

  14. ぼうぼ
    my late mother

  15. ぼうじょう
    discourtesy, lawlessness

  16. なきもの
    dead person

  17. とうぼう
    (vs) escape

  18. おんぼう
    cremator

  19. ぼうれい
    ghost, the dead, departed spirits, apparition
Kanji Character : 亡
Kuten Encoding : 4320
SJIS Encoding : 4b34
Unicode Encoding : 4ea1
Old Nelson Index : 281
Radical Number : 8
Frequency Ranking : 824
Gakken Index : 887
Grade Level : 6
Halpern Index : 3402
Heisig Index : 485
Henshall Index : 973
New Nelson Index : 86
Stroke Count : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2j1.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : j
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 672
SKIP Code : 4-3-2
De Roo Code : 475
Four Corner Code : 0071.0
Korean reading : mu
Pinyin reading : wu2
Morohashi Index String : 287
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 1.0529
Morohashi Index Number : 287
Morohashi Page : 529
Morohashi Volume : 1
Missclassification Codes
  1. PP2-2-1
  2. PP4-3-4
Cross Index Codes
  1. J1326E
Dictionary Codes
  1. R475
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