殤 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. わかじに。いのちみじかし。わかくして死ぬ。特に、二十歳に満たない者の死。
  2. 戦争や思いがけない事故で死ぬ。また、その死者。
  3. 弔う者のない霊。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「歹」+音符「𬀷」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

dying at a young age

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ショウ
Kun (native)
  • わかじに
Other languages
  • 拼音shang1
  • 한글sang
  • Hán-ViệtThương

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
歹(かばねへん)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+6BA4

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰歹𬀷

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-11
Four Corner
1822.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4c11.8