丧
喪sàng
#1,402 most
frequent character
to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
丧 began as a picture of two wailing mouths, with 桑 sāng as the sound part. It first named death and funeral rites, and from there came 'to be in mourning'. Read sàng, it means losing someone by death, then losing something important.
Drawn as: two wailing mouths
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