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喪

喪

喪 U+55AA, 喪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55AA
← 喩
[U+55A9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喫 →
[U+55AB]
See also: 丧

Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喪
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 哭 ‎(“cry”) + phonetic 亾.

Han character

喪 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土口口女 (GRRV), four-corner 40732)

References

  • KangXi: page 200, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3985
  • Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 650, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+55AA

Chinese

trad. 喪
simp. 丧

Alternative forms

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 喪
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 息郎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /saŋ/
Li
Rong		 /sɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /sɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喪
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-mˤaŋ/
English mourning, burial

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喪
Reading # 2/2
No. 12661
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 桑
Old
Chinese		 /*smaːŋ/

Definitions

喪

  1. mourning
  2. to mourn
  3. funeral
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 喪
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /saŋH/
Li
Rong		 /sɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /sɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喪
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-mˤaŋ-s/
English lose; destroy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喪
Reading # 1/2
No. 12660
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 喪
Old
Chinese		 /*smaːŋs/
Notes 說文從亡亡亦聲，甲文借桑字金文始加亡

Definitions

喪

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

喪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

喪 • ‎(sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喪 (tang, táng, tảng)

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