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没 = 殳 + 水

没 is a Japanese kanji written with 7 strokes, listed here under the keyword “drown”. It is built from 殳 (weapon) and 水 (water). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 763.

Keyword
drown
RTK frame
763
Strokes
7
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ボツ, モツ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
おぼ.れる, しず.む, ない
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
тонуть
Same glyph as a simplified Chinese hanzi
没 not

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 殳 weapon
  2. 水 water

How to find 没 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “weapon” + “water”. 没 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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