miss, mourning
喪 centers on the experience of loss: missing someone or something that is gone, and the formal mourning that follows such a loss.
喪 is thought to combine 哭 (weeping) with 亡 (lost), suggesting mourning for the dead. The modern form is complex and its exact historical development is uncertain.
The top looks like two crying eyes above a mouth 口, and the bottom resembles clothing 衣. Picture mourners in funeral clothes, their mouths open in grief and tears falling.
For ソウ, imagine the soul (ソウ) of the departed being mourned: soul -> ソウ, and the mourners miss them deeply.
loss; forfeit
mourning
mourning clothes; mourning attire; mourning dress
insanity; lack of mental capacity; (state of) non compos mentis
in mourning
absent-mindedness; stupor; stupefaction; abstraction; being stunned
chief mourner
artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit upon their 100th birthday
loss of virginity (of a female); defloration; deflowering
to go into mourning
to go into mourning
refraining from offering the (New Year's) greetings during the period of mourning
funeral
sense of loss; feeling of loss
unpopular woman; woman who isn't well-liked by men
homeless; family in mourning
feeling lost like a stray dog
unpopular man; man who isn't well-liked by women
funerals and festivals
mourning band; mourning ribbon