凶 xiōng HSK6 vicious, fierce Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Showing: famine All meanings 12 xiōng 12 fierce 3vicious 3ominous 2famine 1inauspicious 1murderous 1famine 1 1 sentence for 凶 (xiōng — famine) 连年遭凶,百姓生活困苦。 liánnián zāo xiōng, bǎixìng shēnghuó kùnkǔ. Suffering through successive bad years, the people lived in hardship. Source: Dong Chinese Dictionary