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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

傷: wound, hurt

Also: injure, impair, pain, injury, cut, gash, scar, weak point

JLPT N113 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 𬀷 gives the sound

13 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 傷害事件しょうがいじけんassault [n.]
  • 損傷そんしょうdamage, injury
  • 重傷じゅうしょうserious wound or injury
  • 中傷するちゅうしょうするslander, defame
  • 負傷するふしょうするbe injured, be wounded

きずkizu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 傷きずwound, injury, hurt, cut
  • 傷口きずぐちwound
  • 傷跡きずあとscar
  • 傷つけるきずつけるhurt, wound [v.t.]

いたむitamu · kun'yomi

  • 傷むいたむbe damaged, go bad [v.i.]

いためるitameru · kun'yomi

  • 傷めるいためるdamage, impair, hurt [v.t.]

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 火傷やけどburn [n.]

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“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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Also read ショウ

90 kanji share this on'yomiAll 90

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
傷 wound · 亻 + 𬀷
vs楊 willow · 木 + 昜
傷 has 亻 + 𬀷 where 楊 has 木 + 昜.
In ChineseSimplified 伤 · traditional, as in Japanese · shāng

Japan keeps the traditional form 傷; mainland China simplifies it to 伤.

Simplified
伤 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
傷 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shāng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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