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Kanji Detail for 喪 - "mourning, loss, to lose"

喪

  • Meaning

    喪 means "mourning, loss, to lose."

    1. Mourning - Grief for the dead; a period of sorrow.

    2. Loss - The state of being deprived of something.

    3. Lose - To be deprived of; to no longer have.

    4. Perish - To die; to be destroyed.

  • Words using 喪

    • 喪主 もしゅ Listen chief mourner
    • 喪失 そうしつ Listen loss; forfeit

  • Four-character idioms with 喪

    • 士気阻喪 しきそそう Listen demoralization; collapse of morale; one's morale being shaken
    • 意気阻喪 いきそそう Listen depressed in spirits; rejection; disheartened
    • 戦意喪失 せんいそうしつ Listen loss of fighting spirit; losing the will to fight
    • 玩物喪志 がんぶつそうし Listen forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal
    • 禍福得喪 かふくとくそう Listen calamity, good fortune, success and failure

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    • Verified meaning: mourning, loss, to lose
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    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.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    miss; mourning

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    mourning; mourn; funeral

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    mourning; funeral; (old) corpse

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    mourning; mourn; funeral

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Rites for mourning the dead. Such as 居喪 (in mourning), 弔喪 (offering condolences). | To lose. Such as 喪明 means losing sight. Zixia wept for his son and lost his sight, hence used as a term for losing a child. Anciently, losing one's position was also called 喪.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    soh(ソウ) ソウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    mo(も) も

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    口 (kuchi・kuchihen)

  • Related Keywords

    mourning loss to lose destruction perish grief bereavement condolence dead death die expire funeral lamentation melancholy passing

Sentences including 喪

  • He is suffering from loss of memory.

  • Mrs. Smith is in black.

  • Is it possible to send mourning clothes to the cleaner?

  • Water shortage is caused by the loss of forests.

  • Nothing I do lately seems to turn out right. I'm losing confidence in myself.

  • His loss of memory is a psychological problem rather than a physical one.

  • It was I who found her. She'd lost consciousness, so I carried her to the infirmary.

  • I feel like men who, on dates, let you think "maybe I'm a really great woman!" are good at taking the lead, so if anything, men who make you feel like you're pitiful whenever you're together, or make you lose your confidence, are completely unsuitable as dating partners.

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