喪亂

喪亂

See also: 丧乱

Chinese

		lose (by death); mourning; funeral	in confusion; disorderly
trad. (喪亂)		喪	亂
simp. (丧乱)		丧	乱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sāngluàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄤ ㄌㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): song¹ lyun⁶
• Min Dong (BUC): sŏng-luâng
• Wu (Wiktionary): saan loe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: sāngluàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄤ ㄌㄨㄢˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sangluann
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sangluàn
    • IPA ^(key): /sɑŋ⁵⁵ lwän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: song¹ lyun⁶
    • Yale: sōng lyuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: song¹ lyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: song¹ lün⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɔːŋ⁵⁵ lyːn²²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sŏng-luâng
    • IPA ^(key): /souŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(l-)nˡuɑŋ²⁴²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: saan loe (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /sɑ̃⁵⁵ lø²¹/

Noun

喪亂

1. (literary) death and disorder; disturbance and bloodshed

   天降喪亂，饑饉薦臻。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   天降丧乱，饥馑荐臻。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Tiān jiàng sāngluàn, jījǐn jiànzhēn. [Pinyin]

   That Heaven [thus] sends down death and disorder?
   Famine comes again and again.