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亡

Level VI of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 696 / 2,608

Death

On’yomi
ぼう、もう
Kun’yomi
な
Radical
亠 Lid (Kangxi 8)
School grade
6
Strokes
3

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

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

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 dieN4
亡くす なくす to lose someone, wife, child, etcN2
死亡 しぼう death,mortalityN3

亡 is rank 696 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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