# 亡 — Death

Frequency rank 696 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 芸 (Art), less common than 似 (Resemble).

- On’yomi: ぼう、もう
- Kun’yomi: な
- Radical: 亠 Lid (Kangxi 8)
- Frequency path: Level VI of XX
- School grade: 6
- Strokes: 3

The character 亡 (death) looks like a figure falling off a cliff — the diagonal stroke drops away from the horizontal line, a person tumbling into the void of death.

In words:

- 亡くなる なくなる — to die
- 亡くす なくす — to lose someone, wife, child, etc
- 死亡 しぼう — death,mortality

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