殃
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calamity
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 歹 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 殃
- Common rank
- #3,165
- Unicode
- U+6B83
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 殃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城门失火，殃及池鱼 | a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystande… | |
| 德不配位，必有灾殃 | calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social stat… | |
| 病国殃民 | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) | |
| 祸国殃民 | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) | |
| 积恶余殃 | Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom). | |
| 病病殃殃 | seriously ill; in fragile health | |
| 殃及 | to bring disaster to | |
| 病殃殃 | looking or feeling sickly | |
| 灾殃 | disaster | |
| 遭殃 | to suffer a calamity |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 央 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 央 sound part | central; to beg; to run out | |
| 英 | petal, flower, leaf; brave, heroic; English | |
| 映 | to project; to reflect; to shine | |
| 秧 | shoots, sprouts; young rice plants | |
| 盎 | pot, cup, bowl; abundant | |
| 鞅 | the strap over a horse's neck | |
| 鸯 | female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) | |
| 泱 | great, expansive; agitated | |
| 怏 | discontented, dispirited, sad |