Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N3

661 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: deceased, the late, dying, perish

Kunyomi: な.い な.き- ほろ.びる ほろ.ぶ ほろ.ぼす

Onyomi: ボウ モウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: なべぶた

Meaning: lid

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

霊(ぼうれい)   ghost, departed spirits

(そんぼう)   life or death

人(みぼうじん)   widow

命する(ぼうめいする)   flee one's country, defect

する(しぼうする)   die

する(とうぼうする)   escape [v.i.]

する(めつぼうする)   fall, be ruined, collapse

者(もうじゃ)   the dead

くす(なくす)   lose (a loved one)

くなる(なくなる)   pass away

き母(なきはは)   one's deceased mother

Onyomi Examples

ボウ death, the late, the deceased

ボウメイ fleeing from one's country, seeking asylum, defection, emigration (for political reasons), (going into) exile, becoming a (political) refugee

ソンボウ life or death, existence, destiny

コウボウ rise and fall, ups and downs

モウジャ the dead, ghost, person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.), person with a blind lust (for)

者船 モウジャブネ ship of the dead which appears if you go fishing the night of the Bon festival

ショウボウ destruction by fire

ソンモウ loss

Kunyomi Examples

ない dead

滅びる ほろびる to go to ruin, to go under, to fall, to be destroyed, to die out, to become extinct, to perish

滅ぶ ほろぶ to be ruined, to go under, to perish, to be destroyed

滅ぼす ほろぼす to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin