The kanji character 傷 fundamentally means wound, injury, hurt, or scratch.

It refers to physical damage to the body, as well as damage, flaw, or defect in objects and abstract concepts like reputation.

Here are the readings for 傷: ・On-yomi (音読み): しょう (shou) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): きず (kizu), いた.む (ita.mu), いた.める (ita.meru)

Here are three common usage examples of 傷: ⚫︎傷つく Translation: To get hurt, to be damaged ⚫︎怪傷 Translation: Injury, wound ⚫︎傷心 Translation: Broken heart, heartache

Since the user's native language is Vietnamese, we can look at the Sino-Vietnamese (漢越語) vocabulary connection. Kanji and Vietnamese have about a 70% correspondence rate in terms of shared Sino-Vietnamese roots. The modern Vietnamese word derived from the same origin as 傷 is thương (as in thương tích meaning injury or bị thương meaning to be wounded).

The kanji 傷 is a phono-semantic compound character. The left side is the radical 人 (or 亻) meaning person. The right side is 昜, which provides the sound and contributes to the idea of spreading or exposing. Historically, it combines the concept of a person with an affliction or damage.