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無くなる

なくなる

to be lost, to be used up

Mnemonic

The whole lot burnt away to nothing, with なる the turning into. Bill Nye な has vanished mid-sentence again, and where it went has stopped being the interesting question: なくなる.

Worth knowing

Used up or gone missing, both. Careful with 亡くなる なくなる, identical in speech, which is the polite word for somebody dying.

Built from

nothing, without
A thicket of strokes over 灬 fire, the lot of it burnt away to nothing.

Words sharing these kanji

nonexistent, not being unreasonable, impossible safely, peacefully ignoring, disregarding wasteful, useless naught, nothing, without silence, muteness

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