音読み: ボウ・モウ
訓読み: なくなる
画数: 3
部首: なべぶた（亠）
Meaning
Death / Perish / Disappear / Lose
- Basic forms
- 亡くなる — pass away; die / base form
- 亡くなります — passes away / masu form
- 亡くなった — passed away / ta form
- 亡くなって — passing away … / te form
- 亡くならない — do not pass away / negative
- 亡くなれば — if (someone) passes away / conditional
- Common expressions
- 祖父が亡くなる — one’s grandfather passes away
- 昨年亡くなった — passed away last year
- More
- 亡くなっている — has passed away / state
亡くなる（なくなる） is an ichidan intransitive verb. It is a polite and indirect expression used to refer to someone’s death, commonly used in formal speech, news, and respectful contexts.
- 亡命 — exile / defection
- 死亡 — death
- 亡霊 — ghost
- 亡くなる — to die / pass away
- 亡者 — the deceased
- 亡国 — ruined nation
亡 combines the lid radical 亠 with a person-like element, conveying disappearance or loss. It evolved to represent death and ruin, as well as figurative loss such as ruin of a state.