Dong Chinese dictionary

wáng

death

Original meaning:

tip of a blade

Depicts the tip of a knife blade (刀). Similar in origin to 方. Based on the original meaning "tip of a blade", now written as 芒. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

刀 Iconic component

dāo

knife

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 刀 than it was in ancient scripts.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts the tip of a knife.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

亡

wáng

death, destroyed; lose, perish; to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased

亡 (亾)

wáng

old variant of 亡[wáng]

Most common words with 亡

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	死亡	to die
	伤亡	casualties
	亡	to die
	身亡	to die
	逃亡	to flee

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (2 verified)

丧喪盲

Sound component in 15 characters (8 verified)

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.871

漢語多功能字庫

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