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
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遭殃 | zāo yāng | to suffer a calamity |
| 殃及 | yāng jí | to bring disaster to |
| 祸国殃民 (禍國殃民) | huò guó yāng mín | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) |
| 灾殃 (災殃) | zāi yāng | disaster |
| 病国殃民 (病國殃民) | bìng guó yāng mín | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) |
| 病殃殃 | bìng yāng yāng | looking or feeling sickly |
| 病病殃殃 | bìng bing yāng yāng | seriously ill; in fragile health |
| 积恶余殃 (積惡餘殃) | jī è yú yāng | Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom). |
殃 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 5
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 52
- Mencius 1B.10
- Mencius 6B.8
- Mencius 7B.28
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
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