wáng

death

Original meaning: 

tip of a blade

Depicts the tip of a knife blade (). Similar in origin to . Based on the original meaning "tip of a blade", now written as . The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
刀 iconic component

  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

◎ iconic component

  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts the tip of a knife.

Evolution

亡 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
亡 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
亡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wáng

death, destroyed; lose, perish; to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased

() 

wáng

old variant of [wáng]

Most common words with 亡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

死亡

to die

伤亡

casualties

to die

身亡

to die

逃亡

to flee

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 13 characters (6 verified)

Iconic component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*maŋ

mjang

wáng

flee; disappear; die


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 40.8297% of movies

889th most common character in movies

957th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+4EA1

Shuowen

“亡,逃也。从入,从。”


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