sàng, sāng
mourning
Depicts multiple mouths (吅) wailing to mourn the death (亡) of someone. 桑 and 亡 represent the sound.
Components
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
ModernDefinitions
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 | |
Unicode | U+55AA |
Shuowen | “喪,亡也。从哭,从亡,會意。亡亦聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.107
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