殍 — Chinese character
殍
piǎo
to starve to death
- Pinyin
- piǎo
- Radical
- 78 ⽍ (Death)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 歹 孚
- Formation
- pictophonetic — death; meaning component 歹; sound component 孚
- Japanese
- 殍 as a kanji
Common words with 殍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饿殍 (餓殍) | è piǎo | starving people |
| 饿殍载道 (餓殍載道) | è piǎo zài dào | starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine |
殍 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.