沒

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

没

🇨🇳

not have

HSK 10

Communication →Language

méi, mò

ボツ、モツ

おぼ.れる、しず.む、ない

몰

Depicts a hand reaching in the water to grab something. The meaning later expanded to "drown", "disappear", and "not have".

Components

氵 water (drops)+ 回 return+ 又 again =

沒 not have

氵 Meaning component

shui water (drops)

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

回 Iconic component

huí return

to curve

Depicts the rippling surface of water.

又 Iconic component

yòu again

and, also, again, in addition

Depicts a hand.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

沒

Regular

Modern

Chinese

没 / 沒 [méi]

(negative prefix for verbs); have not; not

没 / 沒 [mò]

drowned; to end; to die; to inundate

Japanese

没、歿ぼつ同音

nounn-suf death
noun abbrev. rejection (of a manuscript, etc.)
prefix lacking; without

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (148)

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JAPANESE WORDS (1)

⭐ 没落 [ぼつらく] #16,215

ruin

KOREAN WORDS (6)

매몰

burying; being buried

몰락

fall; downfall; collapse; ruin

몰수

confiscation

신출귀몰

preternatural swiftness; sudden appearance and disappearance

일몰

sunset

출몰

appearing and disappearing