薨 — Chinese character
薨
hōng
the death of a prince; to swarm
- Pinyin
- hōng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 艹 罒 冖 死
- Formation
- pictophonetic — death; meaning component 死; sound component 罒
- Japanese
- 薨 as a kanji
English words written with 薨
薨 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.