殍
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Meaning: to die of starvation
💡 歹 (death) + 孚 (a bird hatching) = death from lack of food.
Compounds
Character Story & Explanation
殍 (piǎo) means 'to die of starvation.' It combines the radical 歹 (dǎi, 'death/evil') with 孚 (fú, 'trust/sincerity') as a phonetic component. This character is rare in modern Chinese but appears in classical texts describing famine victims. A common compound is 饿殍 (è piǎo), meaning 'bodies of the starved.'
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