亡
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to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 亠 +1
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 亡
- Common rank
- #1,119
- Unicode
- U+4EA1
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 亡 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A man 人 in a coffin; see 亾
Components 亠
? unknown part
How to remember it
deceased · Heisig RSH #490
top hat + hook — as a component also called: deceased, perish
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 亡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人为财死，鸟为食亡 | lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom); fig. man will … | |
| 死亡人数 | number of people killed; death toll | |
| 有名亡实 | lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name; nominal | |
| 家破人亡 | family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless | |
| 国破家亡 | the country ruined and the people starving (idiom) | |
| 大脑死亡 | brain death | |
| 生死存亡 | matter of life and death | |
| 精尽人亡 | to die from excessive ejaculation | |
| 死亡笔记 | Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大… | |
| 名存实亡 | the name remains, but the reality is gone (idiom) | |
| 抗日救亡运动 | the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway in… | |
| 国家兴亡，匹夫有责 | The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility f… | |
| 天下兴亡，匹夫有责 | The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility f… | |
| 脑死亡 | brain death | |
| 亡国 | (of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated; a fallen nation | |
| 若有所亡 | see 若有所失[ruo4 you3 suo3 shi1] | |
| 出亡 | to go into exile | |
| 未亡人 | widow (humble self-reference in former times) | |
| 死亡率 | mortality rate | |
| 流亡政府 | government-in-exile |
Sound family
These characters use 亡 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亡 sound part | death, destruction; to lose; to perish | |
| 忘 | to forget, to miss, to neglect, to overlook | |
| 妄 | absurd, foolish, ignorant; rash, reckless, wild | |
| 芒 | blade; ray; silvergrass, Miscanthus sinensis | |
| 罔 | none; to deceive; to slander | |
| 氓 | people, subjects, vassals | |
| 邙 | a mountain in Henan province | |
| 肓 | abdominal cavity; the area between the heart and diaphragm | |
| 虻 | horsefly, gadfly |