shāng
wound
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥aŋ | syang | shāng | wound |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 83.7578% of movies
328th most common character in movies
660th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+50B7 |
Shuowen | “傷,創也。从人,省聲。” |
Sources
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