僵

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rigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

亻 meaning “person” + 畺 sound ( jiāng )

Components 亻畺

stiff · Heisig RSH #2273

人 person + family feud

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
百足之虫死而不僵	bǎi zú zhī chóng sǐ ér bù jiāng	a centipede dies but never falls down; old institutions die hard
死而不僵	sǐ ér bù jiāng	dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis; to die hard (idiom); to die yet not be vanquish…
李代桃僵	lǐ dài táo jiāng	lit. the plum tree withers in place of the peach tree; to substitute one thing for another…
僵住症	jiāng zhù zhèng	catalepsy
僵固性	jiāng gù xìng	rigidity
僵化	jiāng huà	to become rigid
核僵持	hé jiāng chí	nuclear equipoise; nuclear stalemate
僵尸网络	jiāng shī wǎng luò	botnet; zombie network; slave network (used by spammers)
僵尸车	jiāng shī chē	(coll.) abandoned car
僵直	jiāng zhí	stiff; rigid; inflexible
直僵	zhí jiāng	rigid; stiff
僵尸粉	jiāng shī fěn	"zombie fans", fake followers that can be bought to boost one's popularity on Weibo, Baidu…
僵局	jiāng jú	impasse; deadlock
白僵蚕	bái jiāng cán	the larva of silkworm with batrytis
僵住	jiāng zhù	motionless; unable to move
僵硬	jiāng yìng	stiff; rigid
僵持	jiāng chí	to be deadlocked
弄僵	nòng jiāng	to bring to deadlock; to result in a stalemate
闹僵	nào jiāng	(of a relationship or situation) to become strained and tense
尸僵	shī jiāng	rigor mortis

Characters sharing the sound component 畺 — compare how they read.