yāng
misfortune
Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 殃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to suffer a calamity | ||
to bring disaster to | ||
calamity | ||
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) | ||
seriously ill |
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