| wáng | to die/to perish |
| 亡 | to die to lose to be gone |
| 亡佚 | nonextant lost to the ages |
| 亡兵纪念日 | Memorial Day (American holiday) |
| 亡友 | Deceased friends. |
| 亡命 | to flee to go into exile (from prison) |
| 亡命之徒 | runaway (idiom); desperate criminal fugitive |
| 亡国 | country (of bygone years) that has vanished a kingdom destroyed (by war) a state heading for destruction |
| 亡国奴 | slave without a country; a conquered people |
| 亡国灭种 | country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction |
| 亡国虏 | refugee from a destroyed country |
| 亡国论者 | a subjugationist |
| 亡失 | be lost; be missing |
| 亡故 | decease; die; pass away |
| 亡母 | deceased mother |
| 亡灵 | departed spirit |
| 亡羊补牢 | lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) fig. to act belatedly better late than never |
| 亡者 | the deceased |
| 亡魂 | revenant |
| 亡魂丧胆 | lose one's soul and bravery |