没
没 — Drown
drown, sink, hide, fall into, disappear, die
On’yomiボツ (botsu)
On’yomiモツ (motsu)
Kun’yomiおぼれる (oboreru)
Kun’yomiしずむ (shizumu)
Kun’yomiない (nai)
Stroke order (7 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 没
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戦没 | せんぼつ senbotsu | death in battle; killed in action |
| 没後 | ぼつご botsugo | after death; posthumously |
| 日没 | にちぼつ nichibotsu | sunset |
| 没頭 | ぼっとう bottou | immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to |
| 陥没 | かんぼつ kanbotsu | cave-in; collapse; sinking |
| 沈没 | ちんぼつ chinbotsu | sinking; foundering; going down |
Study notes
没 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 7 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1385 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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