漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
喪: miss, mourning
JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
口 carries the meaning · 十 and 衣 are drawn in
12 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 喪失そうしつloss; forfeit
- 大喪たいそうfuneral service of a Japanese emperor
もmo · kun'yomi · on its own
- 喪主もしゅchief mourner
- 喪もmourning
- 服喪ふくもgoing into mourning
- 喪服もふくmourning clothes; mourning attire
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square!”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 丧 · traditional, as in Japanese · sàng
Japan keeps the traditional form 喪; mainland China simplifies it to 丧.
- Simplified
- 丧 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 喪 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sàng 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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