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殇

shāng

Character Traditional 殤

What 殇 means

1. to die in childhood
2. war dead

Words containing 殇

• 国殇guó shāng(literary) person who dies for their country; martyr to the national cause
• 夭殇yāo shāngto die young
• 河殇Hé shāngRiver Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the…
• 唐殇帝Táng Shāng dìEmperor Shang of Tang, reign name of fifth Tang emperor Li Chongmao 李重茂

Characters that look like 殇

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 框kuàngframe (e.g. door frame); casing; fig. framework
• 赂lùbribe; bribery
• 疮chuāngsore; skin ulcer
• 疡yángulcers; sores
• 烙làoto brand; to iron; to bake (in a pan)
• 绥suíto pacify; Taiwan pr. suī

Sounds the same

Read shāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 商commerce; merchant; dealer
• 伤to injure; injury; wound
• 汤rushing current
• 觞feast; goblet
• 熵entropy (character created in 1923)
• 墒plowed earth; soil moisture; furrow
• 謪to discuss (old variant of 商
• 漡old variant of 汤