Memory phrase for the character: 殃

殃

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Meaning calamity, disaster

Pronunciation

yāng

Explanation

Left: bad, wicked 歹 (vertebrae or rib), right: center 央 (The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered.)

Mnemonic
 
If the bad is in the center, it is a calamity.

Radicals

歹 bad, wicked
央 center, middleA big 大 person with a yoke 冂 that is central. Similar to 夬 which is understood as an "incomplete center".
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 Vocabulary

遭殃 zāo yāng  to suffer a calamity
积恶余殃 jī è yú yāng  Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).
灾殃 zāi yāng  disaster
灾殃 zāi yāng  

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