喪

See also: 丧

Translingual

Etymology

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)

1. mourning
2. mourn
3. funeral

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

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Chinese

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trad.		喪
simp.		丧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sāng, sàng (sang¹, sang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄤ, ㄙㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): song¹, song³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: sang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sang
    • IPA ^(key): /sɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: sang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanq
    • IPA ^(key): /sɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: song¹, song³
    • Yale: sōng, song
    • Cantonese Pinyin: song¹, song³
    • IPA ^(key): /sɔːŋ⁵⁵/, /sɔːŋ³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (喪, reconstructed)
Character (喪), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 息郎切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sɑŋ/	/sɑŋ/	/sɑŋ/	/sɑŋ/	/saŋ/	/sɑŋ/	/sɑŋ/
Character (喪), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 蘇浪切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sɑŋH/	/sɑŋH/	/sɑŋH/	/sɑŋH/	/saŋH/	/sɑŋH/	/sɑŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (喪, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
喪								sāng								‹ sang ›								/*s-mˤaŋ/								mourning, burial
喪								sàng								‹ sangH ›								/*s-mˤaŋ-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
喪					12660					亡					陽					0					喪					/*smaːŋs/					說文從亡亡亦聲，甲文借桑字金文始加亡
喪					12661					亡					陽					0					桑					/*smaːŋ/

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Japanese

Kanji

喪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: も (mo), うしなう (ushinau), ほろびる (horobiru)

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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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