Chinese Character Wiki
喪

sàng, sāng

mourning

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

Components
桑 sound component

桑  Sound component

sāng

  

mulberry tree

吅 iconic component

吅  Iconic component

sòng, xuān

  

noise

Depicts multiple mouths wailing.

亡 sound,meaning component

亡  Sound Meaning component

wáng

  

death

Evolution

喪 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
喪 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
喪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

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

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-mˤaŋ

sang

sāng

mourning, burial

*s-mˤaŋ-s

sangH

sàng

lose; destroy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.6173% of movies

1496th most common character in movies

1404th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

丧

Unicode

U+55AA

Shuowen

“喪，亡也。从哭，从亡，會意。亡亦聲。”


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