Chinese Word: 殃 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

殃HSK 6

Pinyin: yāng

English Definition: calamity

Chinese Definition:
①祸害：灾殃。遭殃。城门失火，殃及池鱼(喻牵连受害)。
②损害：祸国殃民。

Total strokes: 9; Radical: 歹

Pictophonetic:央 indicates the sound; 歹 (death) conveys the meaning.

Character Formation:

⿰ Left to right
- 歹 [ dǎi ] corpse; death; evil, depraved, wicked
- 央 [ yāng ] central; to beg; to run out

Similar Characters: 殎秧映

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遭殃HSK 6	zāo yāng	to suffer a calamity
殃及	yāng jí	to bring disaster to
祸国殃民	huò guó yāng mín	to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
灾殃	zāi yāng	disaster
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 bystander will also suffer; fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions; ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee