Qū Yuán de 《 Guó shāng 》 dàoniàn wèi guó juānqū de jiàngshì.
Qu Yuan's 'Hymn to the Fallen' mourns the soldiers who died for their country.
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Classically, 殇 meant dying before reaching adulthood. The famous title 国殇 ('Hymn to the Fallen'), a piece in the Nine Songs of the Chu Ci, extends the word to soldiers who fell in battle for their country.
The 'bare-bone / death' radical on the left, used for characters about dying. It is what tells you 殇 is a word about death, here an early or untimely one.
The right side is a contracted, stylised residue of 昜, the same phonetic seen in the simplified forms of 伤 and 汤. It supplies the shāng sound and no longer keeps its original shape.
