喪 (sāng/sàng) — to lose, forfeit; noun (sāng) — mourning, a funeral

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL B2 (est.) · 字

喪 character · TOCFL B2 (est.)

喪＝哭＋亡

ㄙㄤ · sāng/sàng

verb (sàng) — to lose, forfeit; noun (sāng) — mourning, a funeral

字源 FORM — what the parts do

哭義weeping — two mouths and a bent figure

亡聲wáng — gives the sound, and the meaning tooto perish, be gone (dual-role)

IFTwáng → sàng — the dual-role donor sits far from 喪 in reading

Weeping (哭) over 亡, the perished and the lost — and 亡 lends the sound as well. The graph is grief at a death: the rites of mourning (sāng) — 喪禮、喪事. The losing itself widens out (sàng): to forfeit, to be stripped of — 喪失、喪命、喪氣.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

對著走了的人（亡）放聲哭（哭）——人沒了，全喪在這一刻。

Crying out (哭) over the one now gone (亡) — a life lost in that moment.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

sāng

(本義)喪禮、喪事— mourning; a funeral常用

sàng

(引申)喪失、喪命— to lose, forfeit常用

→喪氣、頹喪— dispirited — spirits lost

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension