僵
rigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)
15 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,238 U+50F5
How 僵 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “person”) + 畺 (phonetic, jiāng)
components: 亻 畺
How to remember it
stiff · Heisig RSH #2273
人 person + family feud
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 畺
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 畺 (jiāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 畺 sound component | jiāng | boundary, border |
| 缰 | jiāng | bridle, reins |
| 礓 | jiāng | pebble, small stone |
Words containing 僵
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百足之虫死而不僵 | bǎi zú zhī chóng sǐ ér bù jiāng | a centipede dies but never falls down; old institutions die hard |
| 死而不僵 | sǐ ér bù jiāng | dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis; to die hard (idiom); to die yet not be vanquish… |
| 李代桃僵 | lǐ dài táo jiāng | lit. the plum tree withers in place of the peach tree; to substitute one thing for another… |
| 僵住症 | jiāng zhù zhèng | catalepsy |
| 僵固性 | jiāng gù xìng | rigidity |
| 僵化 | jiāng huà | to become rigid |
| 核僵持 | hé jiāng chí | nuclear equipoise; nuclear stalemate |
| 僵尸网络 | jiāng shī wǎng luò | botnet; zombie network; slave network (used by spammers) |
| 僵尸车 | jiāng shī chē | (coll.) abandoned car |
| 僵直 | jiāng zhí | stiff; rigid; inflexible |
| 直僵 | zhí jiāng | rigid; stiff |
| 僵尸粉 | jiāng shī fěn | "zombie fans", fake followers that can be bought to boost one's popularity on Weibo, Baidu… |
| 僵局 | jiāng jú | impasse; deadlock |
| 白僵蚕 | bái jiāng cán | the larva of silkworm with batrytis |
| 僵住 | jiāng zhù | motionless; unable to move |
| 僵硬 | jiāng yìng | stiff; rigid |
| 僵持 | jiāng chí | to be deadlocked |
| 弄僵 | nòng jiāng | to bring to deadlock; to result in a stalemate |
| 闹僵 | nào jiāng | (of a relationship or situation) to become strained and tense |
| 尸僵 | shī jiāng | rigor mortis |