wound, hurt, injure, impair, pain, injury, cut, gash, scar, weak point
傷 centers on physical or emotional damage: a wound, injury, cut, or scar, and by extension a weak point or something that causes pain or impairment.
傷 combines 亻 (person) with 昜, which likely contributes the sound and originally depicted a wound or injury. The modern form suggests a person being hurt.
A person 亻 beside the shape 昜, which looks like a sun 日 with rays or something spreading out. Imagine a person getting hurt by sharp rays, leaving a wound or scar.
For ショウ, picture a person showing a wound: show -> ショウ, and the person 亻 reveals the injury.
wound; injury; cut; gash; bruise; scratch; scrape; scar
injury; wound
to wound; to injure
damage; injury
to be wounded; to get injured
slander; libel; defamation; calumny; smear
injury; inflicting bodily injury
burn; scald
serious wound; serious injury
external injury; external wound; (physical) trauma
fatal wound
killing and wounding; bloodshed
death and injury; being killed or injured
unhurt; uninjured; unwounded; unscathed; unharmed
scar
(opening of a) wound; cut
minor injury
sentiment; sentimentality
heartbreak; grief; sorrow
injuries and sickness; wounds and illness