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傷

shāng

wound

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

◎ unknown component

◎  Unknown component

  

characterless component

昜 sound component

昜  Sound component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

傷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
傷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
傷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

伤 (傷) 

shāng

wound, injury; fall ill from; to injure; injury; wound

Most common words with 傷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伤

injury

伤害

to injure

受伤

harmed

伤心

to grieve

伤口

wound

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥aŋ

syang

shāng

wound


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 83.7578% of movies

328th most common character in movies

660th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

伤

Unicode

U+50B7

Shuowen

“傷，創也。从人，省聲。”


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