Meaning

Primary

Mourning Dress

Alternative

Mourning Clothes

Word Type

noun

Explanation

Your mourning clothes is your mourning dress or mourning clothes.

Reading

もふく
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The reading comes from the on'yomi for 服 and the kun'yomi for 喪, which you learned with the word 喪. You should know how to read this word!

Context

Context Sentences

私の妹は拒食症なのですが、喪服を着ているとより一層痩せ細ってみえました。

My sister is anorexic and when wearing her mourning dress, she looked even skinnier.

Kanji Composition