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yāng

misfortune, disaster, calamity

🔤 Pictophonetic: 歹 (death) provides meaning, 央 provides pronunciation
HSK 6 9 strokes Uncommon (36%)

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⿰歹央 i

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Component Tree i

dǎi
corpse; death; evil, depraved, wicked
📷 Pictographic: A corpse
4 strokes HSK 6
yāng
central; to beg; to run out
5 strokes HSK 6

Words Using 殃 (9)

zāoyāng
遭殃
HSK 6
to suffer a calamity
yāng
calamity
yāngjí
殃及
to bring disaster to
chéngménshīhuǒ,yāngjíchíyú
城门失火,殃及池鱼
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
huòguóyāngmín
祸国殃民
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
zāiyāng
灾殃
disaster
bìngguóyāngmín
病国殃民
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
bìngbingyāngyāng
病病殃殃
seriously ill / in fragile health
jīèyúyāng
积恶余殃
Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).