Kanji
N3 3 strokes Grade 6 freq #661

deceased, the late, dying, perish

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

lid nabebuta

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

death; dying
fleeing from one's country; seeking asylum
death rate; mortality rate
escape; flight
the deceased; deaths
widow
life or death; existence
departed spirit; soul of the dead
downfall; ruin
deceased father; late father

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

after one's death
to die; to pass away
remains; corpse
to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)

Example sentences

His wife was killed in the accident.

An announcement of his death appeared in the newspapers.

City dwellers have a higher death rate than country people do.

They attributed the low death rate of infants to the progress of medicine.