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Kanji Detail for 沒 - "sink, hide, exhaust, die, decline"
沒
- Meaning
沒 means "sink, hide, exhaust, die, decline."
Sink - To submerge in water; to drown; to be buried.
Hide - To conceal; to be concealed.
Exhaust - To be depleted; to disappear.
Die - To pass away.
Decline - To fall from grace; to decay.
Confiscate - To seize.
Not - To not exist.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
not; have not; none; to drown; sink
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
not, have not, none; to 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
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To sink. Water overflowing something is called 沒, meaning submerged in water. | To die. The Analects says: "Since King Wen died, is not culture here with me?" (文王既沒。文不在茲乎). Also written as 歿. | To exhaust. As in 沒世 (throughout one's life), 沒齒 (until death)—both mean throughout one's entire life. | None. Colloquially, "none" is called 沒有. Calling someone illiterate is called 沒字碑 (blank stele), meaning there is not a single character in their mind. | To extinguish. As in 汨沒 (to sink into oblivion), 埋沒 (to bury), 泯沒 (to vanish)—all mean to prevent something from being revealed and gradually disappear. | To take all of something and possess it. As in property confiscated by the government is called 籍沒. Embezzling what others have entrusted is called 乾沒. | Hidden and unseen. As in "appearing and disappearing suddenly" (乍出乍沒), meaning suddenly visible and suddenly hidden.
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