| term | pronunciation | English |
|---|
| 亡 | ぼう | decease |
| 亡くす | なくす | lose (something) |
| 亡くなる | なくなる | to die |
| 亡命 | ぼうめい | emigration, exile, flight from one's country, defection |
| 亡夫 | ぼうふ | my deceased husband, my late husband |
| 亡父 | ぼうふ | my deceased father, my late father |
| 亡霊 | ぼうれい | ghost, the dead, departed spirits, apparition |
| 存亡 | そんぼう | life or death, existence, destiny |
| 未亡人 | みぼうじん | widow |
| 死亡 | しぼう | death, mortality |
| 死亡率 | しぼうりつ | death rate, mortality |
| 死亡者 | しぼうしゃ | the deceased, deaths, persons killed |
| 滅亡 | めつぼう | downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction |
| 逃亡 | とうぼう | escape, flight, running away, elopement, fleeing |