Kanji N1

没: drown, sink, hide

没 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning drown, sink, hide, written with 7 strokes. It is read ボツ, モツ (on) and おぼれる, しずむ, ない (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 沈没 (ちんぼつ, sinking) and 没収 (ぼっしゅう, seizure).

没

Meanings

  • drown
  • sink
  • hide
  • fall into
  • disappear
  • die
Strokes7
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1385 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ボツ
  • モツ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • おぼれる
  • しずむ
  • ない

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 没

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 沈没ちんぼつ

    sinking; foundering; going down; submersion

    JLPT N1
  • 没収ぼっしゅう

    seizure; confiscation; impounding; sequestration

    JLPT N1
  • 没落ぼつらく

    ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

    JLPT N1
  • 戦没せんぼつ

    death in battle; killed in action

  • 没後ぼつご

    after death; posthumously

  • 日没にちぼつ

    sunset

  • 没頭ぼっとう

    immersing oneself in; being absorbed in

  • 陥没かんぼつ

    cave-in; collapse; sinking

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