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殃 — Chinese character

殃
yāng
misfortune, disaster, calamity

Pinyin
yāng
Radical
78 ⽍ (Death)
Strokes
9
Components
歹 央
Formation
pictophonetic — death; meaning component 歹; sound component 央
Japanese
殃 as a kanji

Common words with 殃

WordPinyinMeaning
遭殃zāo yāngto suffer a calamity
殃及yāng jíto bring disaster to
祸国殃民 (禍國殃民)huò guó yāng mínto damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
灾殃 (災殃)zāi yāngdisaster
病国殃民 (病國殃民)bìng guó yāng mínto damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
病殃殃bìng yāng yānglooking or feeling sickly
病病殃殃bìng bing yāng yāngseriously ill; in fragile health
积恶余殃 (積惡餘殃)jī è yú yāngAccumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).

殃 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 5

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.

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