没

Meaning

没 centers on something disappearing beneath a surface or boundary: sinking into water, drowning, vanishing from sight, or metaphorically falling into a state. The idea of dying extends naturally from disappearing completely.

• 没収ぼっしゅう
  N1

  seizure; confiscation; impounding; sequestration; forfeiture

• 没ぼつ

  death

• 沈没ちんぼつ
  N1

  sinking; foundering; going down; submersion

• 水没すいぼつ

  submergence; immersion

• 没頭ぼっとう
  N1

  immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

• 出没しゅつぼつ

  making frequent appearances; appearing often; appearing and disappearing

• 没落ぼつらく
  N1

  ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

• 日没にちぼつ
  N1

  sunset

• 陥没かんぼつ

  cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence

• 埋没まいぼつ

  being buried

• 戦没せんぼつ

  death in battle; killed in action

• 没入ぼつにゅう

  being absorbed (in); immersion

• 神出鬼没しんしゅつきぼつ

  appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom

• 没するぼっする

  to sink; to go down; to set

• 没後ぼつご

  after death; posthumously

• 没年ぼつねん

  year of a person's death

• 死没しぼつ

  death

• 出没自在しゅつぼつじざい

  appearing and disappearing at will; elusive; phantom-like

• 収没しゅうぼつ

  confiscation of possessions

• 埋没原価まいぼつげんか

  sunk cost

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