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(wáng) - to die, to be lost (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

wáng

Traditional: 亡

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Translation

to die, to be lost (bound morpheme)

Word origin

An early ideographic character whose ancient form suggested a person hidden or concealed, from which came the senses of to flee, to be lost, and to die.

Origin
ideographic
Root
ancient graph of a person concealed, giving to flee, to be lost, to die

Stroke order

Stroke order for 亡

Examples

He died in the accident.

War causes many deaths.

This is a dangerous fatal disease.

His grandfather passed away long ago.

He died in that war.

亡 (wáng) means to die or to be lost. It is a literary bound morpheme and most often appears in 死亡 (sǐ wáng), death.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 亡.

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This word is part of lesson 105.