sickness

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script depicting a person lying down in bed or a patient at rest, expressing the concept of illness and bodily weakness.

Mnemonic: Remember the shape of a person lying down afflicted with sickness as the key to this "sickness" radical.

• 痒yǎng🔊

  to itch

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 痕hén🔊

  scar

  11 strokes

• 痊quán🔊

  to recover (from illness)

  11 strokes

• 疵cī🔊

  blemish

  11 strokes

• 痌tōng🔊

  moaning in pain

  11 strokes

• 痍yí🔊

  bruise

  11 strokes

• 痎jiē🔊

  (archaic) tertian malaria

  11 strokes

• 痏wěi🔊

  a bruise or contusion

  11 strokes

• 痓chì🔊

  (TCM) wind-related disease characterized by spasms, convulsions and stiffness

  11 strokes

• 痔zhì🔊

  piles

  11 strokes

• 痖yǎ🔊

  mute, incapable of speech

  11 strokes

• 𤶊guài🔊

  (literary) serious illness

  11 strokes

• 痛tòng🔊

  ache

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 痜tū🔊

  old variant of 禿|秃[tu1]

  12 strokes

• 痣zhì🔊

  birthmark

  12 strokes

• 痞pǐ🔊

  constipation

  12 strokes

• 痗mèi🔊

  disease caused by anxiety

  12 strokes

• 痘dòu🔊

  pimple

  12 strokes

• 痉jìng🔊

  spasm

  12 strokes

• 痚xiāo🔊

  asthma

  12 strokes

• 痠suān🔊

  variant of 酸[suan1]

  12 strokes

• 痡pū🔊

  sick

  12 strokes

• 痢lì🔊

  dysentery

  12 strokes

• 痤cuó🔊

  acne

  12 strokes

• 痦wù🔊

  (flat) mole

  12 strokes

• 痧shā🔊

  cholera

  12 strokes

• 痨láo🔊

  tuberculosis

  12 strokes

• 痪huàn🔊

  used in 癱瘓|瘫痪[tan1 huan4]

  12 strokes

• 痫xián🔊

  epilepsy

  12 strokes

• 疴kē🔊

  (literary) disease

  12 strokes

• 痴chī🔊

  imbecile

  13 strokes

• 瘆shèn🔊

  to terrify

  13 strokes

• 瘀yū🔊

  hematoma (internal blood clot)

  13 strokes

• 痰tán🔊

  phlegm

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 痲má🔊

  leprosy

  13 strokes

• 痭péng🔊

  menorrhagia

  13 strokes

• 痯guǎn🔊

  ill-looking

  13 strokes

• 痱fèi🔊

  prickly heat

  13 strokes

• 痳lín🔊

  hernia

  13 strokes

• 痵jì🔊

  nervous start in sleep

  13 strokes

• 痹bì🔊

  paralysis

  13 strokes

• 痻mín🔊

  to be ill

  13 strokes

• 痼gù🔊

  obstinate disease

  13 strokes

• 痿wěi🔊

  atrophy

  13 strokes

• 瘁cuì🔊

  care-worn

  13 strokes

• 瘃zhú🔊

  chilblain

  13 strokes

• 瘅dān🔊

  (disease)

  13 strokes

• 瘏tú🔊

  be injured

  13 strokes