殤

See also: 殇

殤 U+6BA4, 殤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BA4 ← 殣 [U+6BA3] CJK Unified Ideographs 殥 → [U+6BA5]

Translingual

Han character

殤 (Kangxi radical 78, 歹+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一弓人日竹 (MNOAH), four-corner 1822₇, composition ⿰歹𬀷)

1. die young
2. national mourning
3. war dead

Derived characters

• 𧀫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 583, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16557
• Dae Jaweon: page 975, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1393, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6BA4

Chinese

trad.		殤
simp.		殇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
湯	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪	*l̥ʰaːŋ
薚	*l̥ʰaːŋ
簜	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒	*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩	*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙	*l̥ʰaːŋs
啺	*l'aːŋ
碭	*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸	*l'aːŋʔ
愓	*l'aːŋʔ
璗	*l'aːŋʔ
崵	*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿	*l'aːŋs
暢	*l̥ʰaŋs
畼	*l̥ʰaŋs
腸	*l'aŋ
場	*l'aŋ
傷	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤	*hljaŋ
觴	*hljaŋ
慯	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓	*hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲	*hljaŋ
陽	*laŋ
楊	*laŋ
揚	*laŋ
瘍	*laŋ
煬	*laŋ, *laŋs
鍚	*laŋ
暘	*laŋ
颺	*laŋ, *laŋs
昜	*laŋ
輰	*laŋ
敭	*laŋ
鰑	*laŋ
諹	*laŋ, *laŋs
瑒	*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉	*laŋ
餳	*ljaːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāng (shang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shang
    • Wade–Giles: shang¹
    • Yale: shāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shang
    • Palladius: шан (šan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: soeng¹
    • Yale: sēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siong
    • Tâi-lô: siong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: syang

Rime
Character	殤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式羊切
Baxter	syang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/ɕiaŋ/
Wang Li	/ɕĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	殤
Reading #	1/1
No.	14582
Phonetic component	昜
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	商
Old Chinese	/*hljaŋ/

Definitions

殤

1. (literary) to die young; to die whilst a child
2. (literary) a person who has died young
3. (literary) mourning for such a death
4. (literary) to die in battle
5. (literary) a person who has died in battle

Compounds

• 中殤／中殇
• 國殤／国殇 (guóshāng)
• 夭殤／夭殇
• 彭殤／彭殇
• 無服之殤／无服之殇
• 痘殤／痘殇

 

Japanese

Kanji

殤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: わかじに (wakajini)

Korean

Hanja

殤 (eum 상 (sang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

殤: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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