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Kanji Detail for 没 - "to sink, to die, to disappear"

没

  • Meaning

    没 means "to sink, to die, to disappear."

    1. Sink - To go down below the surface.

    2. Die - To pass away; to perish.

    3. Disappear - To vanish; to cease to exist.

    4. None - Without; lacking.

  • Words using 没

    • 戦没 せんぼつ Listen death in battle; killed in action
    • 没後 ぼつご Listen after death; posthumously
    • 日没 にちぼつ Listen sunset
    • 没頭 ぼっとう Listen immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to
    • 陥没 かんぼつ Listen cave-in; collapse; sinking
    • 沈没 ちんぼつ Listen sinking; foundering; going down
    • 没収 ぼっしゅう Listen seizure; confiscation; impounding
    • 没落 ぼつらく Listen ruin; fall; collapse

  • Four-character idioms with 没

    • 出没自在 しゅつぼつじざい Listen appearing and disappearing at will; elusive; phantom-like
    • 没分暁漢 ぼつぶんぎょうかん Listen obstinate person; blockhead
    • 没風流漢 ぼつふうりゅうかん Listen prosaic person; person of an unromantic turn of mind; philistine
    • 神出鬼没 しんしゅつきぼつ Listen appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom

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    • Verified meaning: to sink, to die, to disappear
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read すえひろ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 没

    Surnames 没(すえひろ)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    drown; sink; hide; fall into; disappear; die

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    not, have not, none; drown, sink

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    not, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown

  • Onyomi

    tip

    botsu(ボツ) ボツ

    motsu(モツ) モツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    nai(な-い) な-い

    obo.reru(おぼ-れる) おぼ-れる

    shizu.mu(しず-む) しず-む

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    to sink to die to disappear hide none not exist submerge drown perish decline death engulf immerse

Sentences including 没

  • The moon has gone down.

  • He is absorbed in his work.

  • He devoted himself to reading books.

  • He is absorbed in study.

  • She is engaged in writing a book.

  • She is deep in study.

  • They got to the hotel after dark.

  • I have been occupied in reading books.

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