歿

See also: 殁

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		歿
simp.		殁

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (沒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
沒	*mɯːd
歿	*mɯːd
莈	*mɯːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mò
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴
    • Yale: mwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mut⁶
    • Yale: muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mut
    • Hakka Romanization System: mud`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mud⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /mut̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: mwot

Rime
Character	歿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫勃切
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	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mut6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mò
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. *[t] 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	没
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	没
Old Chinese	/*mɯːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 歿

1. to die
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 沒／没.
   1. to sink
   2. to have no

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Japanese

Kanji

歿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to die

Usage notes

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

Japanese terms with 歿 replaced by daiyōji 没

死没

戦没

病没

Readings

• Go-on: もち (mochi)
• Kan-on: ぼつ (botsu)
• Kun: しぬ (shinu, 歿ぬ)

Compounds

• 歿年(ぼつねん) (botsunen): year at death
• 死歿(しぼつ) (shibotsu): death
• 戦歿(せんぼつ) (senbotsu): death in battle
• 病歿(びょうぼつ) (byōbotsu): death due to illness or natural cause

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 : 生(せい) (sei, “born in”)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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