yāng
Pinyin

Definition

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yāng
  1. calamity

Character Decomposition

Related Words (3)

zāo yāng
  1. 1 to suffer a calamity
yāng jí
  1. 1 to bring disaster to
zāi yāng
  1. 1 disaster

Idioms (4)

城门失火,殃及池鱼
chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú
  1. 1 a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
  2. 2 fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions
  3. 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
病国殃民
bìng guó yāng mín
  1. 1 to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
祸国殃民
huò guó yāng mín
  1. 1 to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
积恶余殃
jī è yú yāng
  1. 1 Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).

Sample Sentences

对啊!一起上班,有意思极了。可是老百姓就遭殃了。你想,夏天一个太阳照着,我们就得吃冰棍,吹空调了。这下子来了十个太阳,那得多热啊!哎哟,好多好多人都中暑了。有些人就劝太阳,你们别闹了,都回家休息吧。
duì a !yīqǐ shàngbān ,yǒu yìsi jí le 。kěshì lǎobǎixìng jiù zāoyāng le 。nǐ xiǎng ,xiàtiān yī ge tàiyáng zhào zhe ,wǒmen jiù děi chī bīnggùn ,chuī kōngtiáo le 。zhèxiàzi lái le shí ge tàiyáng ,nà děi duō rè a !āiyōu ,hǎo duō hǎo duō rén dōu zhòngshǔ le 。yǒuxiē rén jiù quàn tàiyáng ,nǐmen bié nào le ,dōu huíjiā xiūxi ba 。
That's right! Working together was just too much fun. However, the people suffered. Think about it - in the summer, with one sun shining, we have to eat popsicles and sit under the air conditioner. All of the sudden, came ten suns. It had to be really hot! Oh man, tons of people got heatstrokes. Some people urged the suns saying, "Quit making trouble. Go home and rest."
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魏导,最近风声很紧啊。咱们那几个夜总会最近被公安抄了个底儿朝天,还有一些酒吧和地下赌场也遭了殃,人手不够啊。
Wèi dǎo ,zuìjìn fēngshēng hěn jǐn a 。zánmen nà jǐ ge yèzǒnghuì zuìjìn bèi gōng ān chāo le ge dǐr cháo tiān ,hái yǒu yīxiē jiǔbā hé dìxià dǔchǎng yě zāo le yāng ,rénshǒu bùgòu a 。
Mr. Wei, the reports lately haven't been good. Public Security searched a few of our night clubs and tore the places apart. They also made a mess of some of our bars and underground gambling clubs. We don't have enough manpower.