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calamity

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

yang1 yāng

Meaning


Primary

calamity

Alternatives

disaster

Mnemonic


[y-] Yoshi is in [1] front of the [-ang] chapel where he is in the middle of a 殃 calamity. The priests have decided to offer him for sacrifice so he is stuck in a 央 pillory that is front of the chapel. A bunch of 歹 skeletons - corpses from a past 殃 calamity - surround him. Yoshi screams as the priests look on at this 殃 calamity unfolding with no sympathy.

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