殤 — 15 strokes / Radical「歹」
道1University / general (hardest) / 15 strokes / Radical「歹」
- On
- ショウしょう · shō
- Kun
- わかじにwakajini
- Meaning
- dying young
Stroke order
Origin
歹 "bones" with 傷 as phonetic: to die before coming of age.
Compounds
- 殤わかじに
dying young
- 国殤こくしょう
those fallen for the country
Example
国殤を祀る廟が建った。
A shrine was raised for those fallen for the country.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)