忘: ForgetKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it

Words that use the on'yomi (ボウ)

• 忘年会ぼうねんかいyear-end party; "forget-the-year" party
• 忘却ぼうきゃくlapse of memory; forgetting completely
• 両忘りょうぼうdetachment from dichotomies; detachment from objectivity and subjectivity
• 健忘けんぼうforgetfulness
• 健忘症けんぼうしょうamnesia; loss of memory
• 備忘びぼうreminder
• 備忘価額びぼうかがくresidual value; scrap value
• 備忘録びぼうろくnotebook; memorandum
• 前向性健忘ぜんこうせいけんぼうanterograde amnesia
• 幼児期健忘ようじきけんぼうchildhood amnesia; infantile amnesia
• 忘八ぼうはちcustomer at a brothel; john
• 忘失ぼうしつlose; forget
• 忘年ぼうねんforgetting the hardships of the old year
• 忘恩ぼうおんingratitude; thanklessness
• 忘恩行為ぼうおんこういact of ingratitude
• 忘我ぼうがtrance; ecstasy

Words that use a kun'yomi

• 度忘れどわすれlapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind
• 忘れるわすれるto forget; to leave carelessly
• 忘れ去るわすれさるto forget completely; to leave behind
• 忘れ物わすれものlost article; something forgotten
• 物忘れものわすれforgetfulness
• 置き忘れるおきわすれるto leave behind; to misplace
• ど忘れどわすれlapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind
• われを忘れるわれをわすれるto forget oneself; to lose control of oneself
• 入れ忘れるいれわすれるto forget to put in; to leave out
• 初心忘るべからずしょしんわするべからずwe were all beginners once; never lose your humility
• 初心忘る可からずしょしんわするべからずwe were all beginners once; never lose your humility
• 喉元過ぎれば熱さを忘れるのどもとすぎればあつさをわすれるdanger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more
• 天災は忘れたころにやってくるてんさいはわすれたころにやってくるnatural disasters happen when you've forgotten about the previous ones
• 天災は忘れた頃にやってくるてんさいはわすれたころにやってくるnatural disasters happen when you've forgotten about the previous ones
• 寝忘れるねわすれるto oversleep
• 年忘れとしわすれforgetting the hardships of the old year
• 忘るわするto lose something
• 忘るな草わするなぐさforget-me-not
• 忘れえぬわすれえぬunforgettable
• 忘れかけるわすれかけるto start forgetting
• 忘れがたいわすれがたいunforgettable; memorable
• 忘れがちわすれがちforgetful; oblivious of
• 忘れっぽいわすれっぽいforgetful
• 忘れな草わすれなぐさforget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)
• 忘れな草色わすれなぐさいろforget-me-not blue
• 忘れもしないわすれもしないunforgettable; impossible to forget
• 忘れものわすれものlost article; something forgotten
• 忘れられないわすれられないunforgettable; memorable
• 忘れられるわすれられるto slip into obscurity; to be forgotten
• 忘れん坊わすれんぼうforgetful person
• 忘れ勝ちわすれがちforgetful; oblivious of
• 忘れ形見わすれがたみmemento (from a dead person); souvenir
• 忘れ得ぬわすれえぬunforgettable
• 忘れ扇わすれおうぎdiscarded fan (in autumn); forgotten fan
• 忘れ緒わすれおdecorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi
• 忘れ花わすればなlate bloomer; flower blooming after its usual season (esp. in winter)
• 忘れ草わすれぐさHemerocallis fulva var. kwanso (variety of daylily)
• 忘れ難いわすれがたいunforgettable; memorable
• 忘れ霜わすれじもlate frost; frost in late spring

Other readings

• ド忘れどわすれlapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind
• 勿忘草わすれなぐさforget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)
• 勿忘草色わすれなぐさいろforget-me-not blue
• 忘八屋くつわやbrothel
• 忘己利他もうこりたselflessness; selfless devotion to the service of others

Showing the 60 most common of 83 words. See them all in the graph.

Kanji that often appear with 忘

• 健
• 草
• 年
• 物
• 備
• 性
• 恩
• 置
• 症
• 初
• 心
• 向