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眚

shěng

Character

What 眚 means

1. cataract of the eye
2. error

Characters built on 生

These share the phonetic component 生 (shēng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 胜shèngvictory; success; to beat
• 牲shēngdomestic animal; sacrificial animal
• 笙shēngsheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
• 甥shēng(bound form) sister's son; nephew

Sounds the same

Read shěng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 省to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province
• 㗂variant of 省; tight-lipped; to examine