丧

喪
sāng
#1,402 most
frequent character
mourning, funeral, (old) corpse

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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Same Characters, Different Readings

丧sàng
to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)

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