没 – drown, sink, hide

7 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1385 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 没 means drown, sink, hide, fall into, disappear, die. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ボツ、モツ (botsu, motsu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is おぼ.れる、しず.む、ない (oboreru, shizumu, nai). It is written with 7 strokes, under radical 水 (no. 85).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ボツ	botsu
On’yomi	モツ	motsu
Kun’yomi	おぼ.れる	oboreru
Kun’yomi	しず.む	shizumu
Kun’yomi	ない	nai

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 水 (Kangxi radical 85). Components: 汁・殳・几・又.

Words using 没

沈没ちんぼつsinking没収ぼっしゅうseizure没落ぼつらくruin

Example sentences

彼らは沈没する船を見捨てた。

They abandoned the sinking ship.

Tatoeba #96527

兵隊たちは彼らが征服した人々から食物を没収した。

The soldiers seized food from the people they conquered.

Tatoeba #83581

商売でそんな失敗をしたらどんな会社でも没落する。

Such a business failure would sink any company.

Tatoeba #147134

Kanji with the same radical

決法治派済活海求水減演流沢消準渡

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.