piǎo

to starve to death

Components
歹 meaning component

  Meaning component

dǎi

  

evil, bad

death

孚 sound component

  Sound component

  

captive

Definitions

 

piǎo

to starve to death; die of starvation

Most common words with 殍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饿殍

starving people

die of starvation

饿殍载道

starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine