殃 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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yāng

misfortune

Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.

Components

歹 Meaning component

dǎi

corpse, carcass

央 Sound component

yāng

beg

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yāng

misfortune, disaster, calamity; calamity

Most common words with 殃

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	遭殃	to suffer a calamity
	殃及	to bring disaster to
	殃	calamity
	祸国殃民	to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
	病病殃殃	seriously ill

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*ʔaŋ	'jang	yāng	calamity

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6819% of movies

3210th most common character in movies

3562nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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