歿

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See also:
歿 U+6B7F, 歿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B7F

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

歿 (Kangxi radical 78, +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一弓弓水 (MNNE), four-corner 17247, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 579, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16385
  • Dae Jaweon: page 971, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1382, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+6B7F

Chinese

trad. 歿/
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歿
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mɯːd) : semantic (death) + abbreviated phonetic (OC *mɯːd)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 歿
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (56)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter mwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muət̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/muot̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/muət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwət̚/
Li
Rong
/muət̚/
Wang
Li
/muət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mut6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mwot ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁut/
English to dive, drown, die

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 歿
Reading # 1/1
No. 9236
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯːd/

Definitions

歿

  1. (literary) to die
  2. Alternative form of
    1. to sink
    2. to have no

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

歿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to die

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, 歿 is mostly replaced by , due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

歿(ぼつ) (-botsu

  1. died in
    2009年(にせんくねん)歿(ぼつ)
    nisenku nen botsu
    Died in 2009
    Antonyms : (せい) (sei, born in)

Korean

Hanja

歿 (mol) (hangeul , revised mol, McCune–Reischauer mol, Yale mol)

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