亡
Meanings
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- 1.to die
- 2.to lose
- 3.to be gone
- 4.to flee
- 5.deceased
- 1.old variant of 亡[wáng]
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Wiktionary
- 1.to run away; to flee; to escape
- 2.to lose
- 3.to be destroyed; to become extinct; to die out
- 4.to destroy; to annihilate; to exterminate
- 5.to die
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事): a line on 刀 – cutting edge of a knife; the original form of 芒 (OC *maːŋ, *maŋ, “edge of a knife”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *maŋ, which may be decomposed into *ma (“not”) + the Proto-Sino-Tibetan terminative suffix *-ŋ. Cognate with 忘 (OC *maŋ, *maŋs, “to forget”), 罔 (OC *mlaŋʔ, “to not have”), 荒 (OC *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs, “to waste (land, time)”) and 喪 (OC *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ, “to lose”). The meaning of Pronunciation 2 is attested by the Oracle bone script. It is traditionally considered to be a variant of 無 (OC *ma), and its reading is thus semantically applied. However, evidence shows that its meaning was more similar to "無之" ("to not have it, to have none"), and Shijing rhymes suggests that it originally was read like Pronunciation 1, which suggests that it was ultimately also from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”) + Proto-Sino-Tibetan terminative suffix *-ŋ (Pulleyblank, 1995).
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Components
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Example sentences
許多士兵在這裡陣亡。
A lot of soldiers were killed here.
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