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遭殃

zāo yāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

遭殃 (zāo yāng) means "to suffer a calamity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 遭殃 means

1. to suffer a calamity

The characters in 遭殃

• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 殃yāngcalamity

Example sentences

• 先下手为强，后下手遭殃。
  Xiānxiàshǒuwéiqiáng, hòu xiàshǒu zāoyāng.
  Get them before they get us.
• 俗话说：人不犯我，我不犯人；可俗话又说：先下手为强，后下手遭殃!
  As the saying goes: As long as you don't offend me, I won't offend you. But there's another saying: To strike first means victory, to strike second means tragedy.

Where 遭殃 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zàn–zēng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zāo yāng correctly.
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