無常

Adjective

 * 1) changeable; variable; sporadic; irregular; inconsistent

Noun

 * , one or two deities in Chinese folk religion who seize the spirits of people to the Underworld
 * 1)  impermanence

Verb

 * 1)  to die; to pass away

Etymology
From, in turn a translation of  or.

First cited in a Japanese text in the of 611, one of the three texts grouped together as the.

Adjective

 * 1)  transient, impermanent, mutable

Noun

 * 1)  transience, impermanence, mutability
 * 2)   death, the impermanence of one's life