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亡骸 (なきがら) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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は
多おお
く
の
亡骸なきがら
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残のこ
さ
れ
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い
た
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Many corpses were left on the battlefield.
He just stood there in front of his father's remains.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと〉 〉 の 亡骸なきがら を 発見はっけん する to discover someone's remains
The climber's remains were discovered in the mountains.
亡骸なきがら を 安置あんち する to lay the remains to rest (temporarily, e.g. before a funeral)
The family laid the remains to rest at home.
亡骸なきがら に 手て を 合あ わせる to press one's hands together in prayer before the remains
The people quietly clasped their hands in prayer before the remains.
Kanji 亡 deceased, the late, dying Related words 遺体 is the standard respectful term for a deceased person's body used in news and official contexts, while 亡骸 has a more literary, elegiac tone.
死体 is the neutral, clinical word for a corpse (e.g. in crime or forensic contexts), whereas 亡骸 is softer and more reverent.
亡骸 is a literary, gentle word for a deceased person's remains, while 死骸 is more neutral and commonly applied to animals or insects.
Counted with body; physique; posture · shape; form; style · substance; identity; reality · field (mathematics) · counter for humanoid forms (dolls, statues, corpses, etc.) · typeface; type
Written forms 亡骸なきがら Usage 73%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
なきがら Usage 26%
Kana spelling; used for clarity or in contexts where kanji might be avoided.
亡なき がら Usage 1%
亡な き 骸がら
Alternate spelling with okurigana; less common but still encountered.
Etymology Compound of 亡き (naki, 'dead', archaic attributive form of 亡し) + 骸 (gara, 'body, remains'). The reading がら is a rendaku form of から.
