# 傷 — Wound

Frequency rank 661 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 展 (Expand), less common than 奥 (Interior).

- On’yomi: しょう
- Kun’yomi: きず
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level VI of XX

A person on the left carries a lantern with the sun on the right -- a person holding a sun-bright lantern gets burned, creating a wound.

In words:

- 傷 きず — wound,injury,hurt,cut
- 傷付く きずつく — to be hurt;to be wounded;to get injured
- 火傷 やけど — burn,scald

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