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沒

méi, mò

not have

Original meaning: 

reach into the water to grab something

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

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

回 iconic component

回  Iconic component

huí

  

return

Depicts the rippling surface of water.

又 iconic component

又  Iconic component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Depicts a hand.

Evolution

沒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沒 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
沒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

没 (沒) 

méi

not, have not, none; to drown, sink; (negative prefix for verbs); have not; not

没 (沒) 

mò

drowned; to end; to die; to inundate

Most common words with 沒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

没有

haven't

没

not

没什么

nothing

没关系

it doesn't matter

从没

never did

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤut

mwot

mò

to dive, drown, die


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9680% of movies

23rd most common character in movies

72nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

没

Unicode

U+6C92

Shuowen

“沒，沈也。从水，从。”


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