Chinese symbol for “casualties”
伤亡
shāng wáng
Traditional: 傷亡
casualties; injuries and deaths
The closest CC-CEDICT match for casualties is 伤亡 (shāng wáng), defined as: casualties; injuries and deaths.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “casualties”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 死伤 (死傷) | sǐ shāng | casualties; dead and injured |
| 伤号 (傷號) | shāng hào | casualties; wounded soldiers |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 伤亡.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 受伤 (受傷) | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc) |
| 伤心 (傷心) | shāng xīn | to grieve; to be broken-hearted |
| 悲伤 (悲傷) | bēi shāng | sad; sorrowful |
| 伤口 (傷口) | shāng kǒu | wound; cut |
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | to die; death |
| 身亡 | shēn wáng | to die |
| 灭亡 (滅亡) | miè wáng | to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “casualties”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.