Chinese Character Wiki

殤

shāng

die young

Components
歹 meaning component

歹  Meaning component

dǎi

  

evil, bad

death

昜 sound component

昜  Sound component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

殤 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
殤 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
殤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殤 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
殤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

殇 (殤) 

shāng

die young; national mourning; to die in childhood; war dead

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5198th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

殇

Unicode

U+6BA4

Shuowen

“殤，不成人也。人年十九至十六死為長殤；十五至十二死為中殤；十一至八歲死為下殤。从歺，傷省聲。”


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