Translingual

Stroke order

人 have been replaced by 亠 in modern form.

Is also interpreted as a Pictogram (象形)  : a picture of a broken sickle, meaning destroyed/dead.

References

• McNaughton, William (2005) Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition, 2nd Edition edition, Tuttle, ISBN 978-0804835091, page 18
• “亡”, in 字源 (in Mandarin), accessed 2014-02-22

Han character

亡 (radical 8 亠+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 卜女 (YV), four-corner 0071₀, composition ⿱亠𠃊)

1. death, destroyed
2. lose, perish

References

• KangXi: page 88, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 287
• Dae Jaweon: page 184, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 279, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4EA1

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 亾

Pronunciation

Verb

亡

1. to die, to perish

   死亡 (sǐwáng)

2. to flee, to hide

   逃亡 (táowáng)

3. to loose

Adjective

亡

1. deceased
2. subjugated

   亡國／亡国 (wángguó)

References

• (Mandarin) 亡 in CEDICT on MDBG
• (Min Nan) “Entry #185”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. destroy
2. fall; collapse
3. not exist; nonexistent
4. run away

Readings

• Goon: もう (mō)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: な-い (亡い, na-i), な-き (亡き, na-ki), ほろ-ぶ (亡ぶ, horo-bu), ほろ-びる (亡びる, horo-biru), ほろ-ぼす (亡ぼす, horo-bosu)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

亡 • ‎(mang, mu) (hangeul 망, 무, revised mang, mu, McCune-Reischauer mang, mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

亡 (vong, vô)

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References

• Nom Foundation