弔

Meaning

弔 centers on expressing grief and respect for the dead: offering condolences, mourning, and participating in funeral rites.

• 弔うとむらう

  to mourn for; to grieve for; to condole with (the bereaved family, etc.)

• 弔いとむらい

  funeral; burial

• 弔辞ちょうじ

  memorial address; words of condolence; funeral oration; eulogy

• 弔問ちょうもん

  condolence call; visiting a bereaved family to offer condolences

• 弔意ちょうい

  condolence; sympathy; mourning

• 弔い合戦とむらいがっせん

  fighting to avenge someone's death; battle of revenge

• 慶弔けいちょう

  congratulations and condolences

• 弔電ちょうでん

  telegram of condolence

• 哀弔あいちょう

  sympathetic condolences

• 弔い上げとむらいあげ

  last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th)

• 弔するちょうする

  to mourn; to condole

• 弔事ちょうじ

  unhappy event (e.g. death); funeral

• 弔問客ちょうもんきゃく

  person who has come to offer condolences

• 弔客ちょうかく

  people attending a funeral or offering condolences

• 弔慰ちょうい

  condolence; sympathy

• 弔慰金ちょういきん

  condolence money

• 弔文ちょうぶん

  memorial address; words of condolence; funeral oration; eulogy

• 弔旗ちょうき

  mourning flag; flag draped in black; flag at half-mast

• 弔歌ちょうか

  elegy; dirge

• 弔砲ちょうほう

  artillery funeral salute

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