This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Readings

Kana: ボツ、モツ、おぼ.れる、しず.む、ない
Romaji: botsu, motsu, obo.reru, shizu.mu, nai
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

drown, sink, hide, fall into, disappear, die

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  7
Radical Number:  85
Frequency:  1385
Grade:  8
Skip Pattern:  1-3-4
Korean Reading:  mol
Chinese Reading:  mo4
Unicode:  6ca1
JIS:  4B57

Indexes

Halpern Index: 260
Nelson Index: 2506
New Nelson Index: 3066
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3a4.15
Four Corner Index: 3714.7
Guide to Remembering Index: 1823
Gakken Index: 1579
Daikanwanjiten Index: 17233
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 6.1004
Remembering the kanji Index: 707
Kanji Flashcards Index: 1461
Kodansha Compact Index: 1167
Kanji in Context Index: 1130
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 194
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 230
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 714
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 763
Essential Kanji Index: 1075
Kodansha Kanji Index: 305
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 368
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 1140

Words

(ぼつ)
discard; death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without
没年 (ぼつねん)
one's age at death
没収 (ぼっしゅう)
forfeiture; seizure; confiscation; impounding
没落 (ぼつらく)
ruin; fall; collapse
戦没 (せんぼつ)
death in battle; killed in action
死没 (しぼつ)
death
沈没 (ちんぼつ)
sinking; foundering; going down; submersion; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
没後 (ぼつご)
after death; posthumously
没す (もっす)
to sink; to go down; to set; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish; to confiscate
水没 (すいぼつ)
submerge
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