Dong Chinese dictionary

sàng, sāng

mourning

Depicts multiple mouths (口) wailing to mourn the death (亡) of someone. 桑 and 亡 represent the sound.

Components

桑 Sound component

sāng

mulberry tree

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

口 Iconic component

kǒu

mouth

Depicts a mouth wailing.

口 Iconic component

kǒu

mouth

Depicts a mouth wailing.

亡 Sound Meaning component

wáng

death

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

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

丧 (喪)

sàng

mourning; mourn; funeral; to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged

丧 (喪)

sāng

(old) corpse

Most common words with 喪

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	沮丧	dispirited
	丧失	to lose
	丧	to die
	丧生	to die
	丧命	to lose one's life

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.107

漢語多功能字庫

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