殃
calamity
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,165 U+6B83
How 殃 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
歹 (semantic, “death”) + 央 (phonetic, yāng)
How to remember it
calamity · Heisig RSH #2723
bones + 央 center
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 央
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 央 (yāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 央 sound component | yāng | central; to beg; to run out |
| 英 | yīng | petal, flower, leaf; brave, heroic; English |
| 映 | yìng | to project; to reflect; to shine |
| 秧 | yāng | shoots, sprouts; young rice plants |
| 盎 | àng | pot, cup, bowl; abundant |
| 鞅 | yāng | the strap over a horse's neck |
| 鸯 | yāng | female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) |
| 泱 | yāng | great, expansive; agitated |
| 怏 | yàng | discontented, dispirited, sad |
Words containing 殃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城门失火，殃及池鱼 | chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú | a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystande… |
| 德不配位，必有灾殃 | dé bù pèi wèi , bì yǒu zāi yāng | calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social stat… |
| 病国殃民 | bìng guó yāng mín | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) |
| 祸国殃民 | huò guó yāng mín | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) |
| 积恶余殃 | jī è yú yāng | Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom). |
| 病病殃殃 | bìng bing yāng yāng | seriously ill; in fragile health |
| 殃及 | yāng jí | to bring disaster to |
| 病殃殃 | bìng yāng yāng | looking or feeling sickly |
| 灾殃 | zāi yāng | disaster |
| 遭殃 | zāo yāng | to suffer a calamity |