| 985 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 973 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 887 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 281 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 979 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 297 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 672 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 684 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 582 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 37 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4210 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2126 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2874 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 496 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 287 | Morohashi |
| 3402 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 86 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 485 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 524 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 829 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
661 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 亡 【ボウ】 death, the late, the deceased
- 亡命 【ボウメイ】 fleeing from one's country, seeking asylum, defection, emigration (for political reasons), (going into) exile, becoming a (political) refugee
- 存亡 【ソンボウ】 life or death, existence, destiny
- 興亡 【コウボウ】 rise and fall, ups and downs
- 亡者 【モウジャ】 the dead, ghost, person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.), person with a blind lust (for)
- 亡者船 【モウジャブネ】 ship of the dead which appears if one goes fishing during the Bon festival
- 焼亡 【ショウボウ】 destruction by fire
- 損亡 【ソンモウ】 loss
Kun reading compounds
- 亡い 【ない】 dead
- 滅びる 【ほろびる】 to go to ruin, to go under, to fall, to be destroyed, to die out, to become extinct, to perish
- 滅ぶ 【ほろぶ】 to be ruined, to go under, to perish, to be destroyed
- 滅ぼす 【ほろぼす】 to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin
Readings
- Korean:
- mang, mu
Spanish
- desaparecer
- perecer
- difunto
- huir
- escapar
Portuguese
- falecido
- agonizante
- atrasado
- perecer
French
- décédé
- feu ...
- mon regretté ...
- mourir
- périr
- détruire
| 475 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2j1.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 4-3-4 | SKIP code |
| 2-2-1 | SKIP code |
| 0071.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-43-20 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4ea1 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
- 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
- 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
- 異国 【イコク】 foreign country
Kun reading compounds
- 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
- 国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native, local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
- お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
- 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world
Readings
- Japanese names:
- くな、 こ
- Korean:
- gug
Spanish
- país
Portuguese
- País
- terra
- nação
French
- pays
| 79 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 136 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 123 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 8 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1037 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 111 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 36 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 745 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.11 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 40 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 40 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 151 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 344 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3831 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1964 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2659 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 588 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 4752 | Morohashi |
| 3087 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 950 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 581 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 624 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 4 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 158 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3172 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3s5.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-3-5 | SKIP code |
| 6010.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-25-81 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 56fd | Unicode hex code |