| 殃 | |||
| misfortune, disaster, calamity | |||
| Radical | 歹歹𣦵𣦶 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading | yāng | Cantonese reading | joeng1 |
| Japanese on reading | you ou | Japanese kun reading | wazawai |
| Korean reading | ang | Vietnamese reading | trưa ương |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 䄃 | ||
| 殃 | [ yāng ] calamity |
| 殃及 | [ yāng jí ] to bring disaster to |
| ⇒ 城門失火，殃及池魚 | [ chéng mén shī huǒ yāng jí chí yú ] a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer, fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions, ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee |
| ⇒ 德不配位，必有災殃 | [ dé bù peì weì bì yoǔ zaī yāng ] calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social status |
| ⇒ 災殃 | [ zaī yāng ] disaster |
| ⇒ 病國殃民 | [ bìng guó yāng mín ] to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) |
| ⇒ 病病殃殃 | [ bìng bing yāng yāng ] seriously ill, in fragile health |
| ⇒ 病病殃殃 | [ bìng bing yāng yāng ] seriously ill, in fragile health |
| ⇒ 禍國殃民 | [ huò guó yāng mín ] to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) |
| ⇒ 積惡餘殃 | [ jī è yú yāng ] Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom). |
| ⇒ 遭殃 | [ zaō yāng ] to suffer a calamity |