死亡 (しぼう, shibou) Japanese meaning: death | Kotomora

死し亡ぼう

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死亡する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	死し亡ぼうする	死し亡ぼうしない
Polite	死し亡ぼうします	死し亡ぼうしません
Past polite	死し亡ぼうしました	死し亡ぼうしませんでした
Past	死し亡ぼうした	死し亡ぼうしなかった
Te-form	死し亡ぼうして	死し亡ぼうしないで
Desire	死し亡ぼうしたい	死し亡ぼうしたくない
Potential	死し亡ぼうできる	死し亡ぼうできない
Passive	死し亡ぼうされる	死し亡ぼうされない
Causative	死し亡ぼうさせる	死し亡ぼうさせない
Causative passive	死し亡ぼうさせられる	死し亡ぼうさせられない
Volitional	死し亡ぼうしよう
Polite volitional	死し亡ぼうしましょう
Imperative	死し亡ぼうしろ	死し亡ぼうするな
Conditional	死し亡ぼうすれば	死し亡ぼうしなければ
Tara conditional	死し亡ぼうしたら	死し亡ぼうしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

death; dying; mortality

Formal or official term for death, often used in news reports, statistics, and legal contexts. Can be used as a noun or with する to mean 'to die'.

事じ故こで3人にんが死

Kanji

死death, die
亡deceased, the late, dying

Related words· 9

死しぬN5
死ぬ is the plain, everyday verb for dying, while 死亡 is the formal, clinical term used in official reports and statistics.
死し去きょN1
死去 is used in respectful announcements or obituaries about a specific person's death, while 死亡 is neutral and factual, common in legal or statistical contexts.
没ぼつ
死亡 is the standard, neutral term for death used in everyday and legal contexts, while 没 is a more formal or literary term often found in compounds and historical writing.
病びょう死しN1
死亡 is the general, cause-neutral term for death used in official documents, while 病死 specifies that the death was caused by illness.

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即そく死しN1
死亡 is the general, neutral word for death or a fatality, while 即死 specifically means dying instantly at the moment of an accident or injury.
死しN1
死亡 is the formal, official term used in medical or legal reports, while 死 is the broader, everyday word for death.
往おう生じょうN1
死亡 is a neutral, clinical term for death, whereas 往生 can carry religious or euphemistic overtones for passing away.
戦せん死しN1

Opposites

生せい存ぞんN2
生存 means surviving or being alive, the direct statistical opposite of 死亡 (e.g. 生存率 vs 死亡率).
生せい還かん
死亡 means to die, the direct opposite of 生還, which means to return alive from a dangerous situation.
出しゅっ生しょうN1
死亡 (formal 'death') is the standard demographic and legal counterpart to 出生 ('birth'), as in 出生率 vs 死亡率.

Politeness

逝せい去きょhonorific 尊敬語
逝去 is the honorific term used to respectfully announce someone else's death, whereas 死亡 is the neutral, clinical term used in official records.

Don't confuse with

死し滅めつ
死亡 refers to the death of an individual person, while 死滅 refers to the extinction or dying out of a whole species or group.
致ち死し
死亡 is a noun/verb-noun meaning 'death, to die', while 致死 is an adjectival/prefix element meaning 'causing death'; learners sometimes wrongly use 致死 where a plain noun for death is needed.
死し亡ぼう者しゃ
死亡 is the abstract noun for 'death' itself, while 死亡者 refers to the actual people who died.
死し傷しょう
死傷 covers both being killed and injured, whereas 死亡 refers only to death, not injury.

Word family· 26

死し亡ぼう事じ故こN2
fatal accident; deadly accident
即そく死し亡ぼう
instant death
死し亡ぼう例れい
death case; fatal case; incident of death
死し亡ぼう

Built from

死し+亡ぼう

Etymology

Compound of 死 (death) and 亡 (perish, die). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination has been used in formal Chinese and Japanese to denote death.

Meanings

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