Pronunciation & meaning
- Pronunciation
Mandarinㄒㄩㄥ xiōng
Cantonesehung1
Taiwanesehiong
- Meaning
- culprit; murder; bad, sad
- Kangxi Radical
- 凵 · 4 strokes
Common words
- 凶狠xiōng hěncruel; vicious
- 吉凶jí xiōnggood and bad luck (in astrology)
- 凶多吉少xiōng duō jí shǎo(lit.) everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); (fig.) inauspicious; everything points to disaster
- 逢凶化吉féng xiōng huà jímisfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account
- 元凶yuán xiōngchief offender; main culprit
- 凶暴xiōng bàobrutal
- 凶兆xiōng zhàoill omen
- 凶焰xiōng yànferocity; aggressive arrogance
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