殃 Strokes Write it Listen 殃 yāng misfortune, disaster, calamity HSK 7–9 9 strokes Radical 歹 Sound + meaning 1 word Built from歹meaningdǎicorpse; death; evil, depraved, wicked央soundyāngcentral; to beg; to run out How it works歹 hints at the meaning (death), and 央 yāng hints at the sound.