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.

• 瘥chài🔊

  to recover from disease

  14 strokes

• 瘩da🔊

  used in 疙瘩[ge1 da5]

  14 strokes

• 瘤liú🔊

  tumor

  15 strokes

• 瘪biě🔊

  variant of 癟|瘪[bie3]

  15 strokes

• 瘫tān🔊

  paralyzed

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 瘚jué🔊

  to hiccup

  15 strokes

• 瘛chì🔊

  used in 瘛瘲|瘛疭[chi4 zong4]

  15 strokes

• 瘜xī🔊

  a polypus

  15 strokes

• 瘝guān🔊

  incapacitated

  15 strokes

• 瘠jí🔊

  barren

  15 strokes

• 瘢bān🔊

  mark

  15 strokes

• 瘨diān🔊

  convulsions

  15 strokes

• 瘼mò🔊

  distress

  15 strokes

• 瘸qué🔊

  lame

  16 strokes

• 瘾yǐn🔊

  addiction

  HSK 7

  16 strokes

• 瘭biāo🔊

  whitlow

  16 strokes

• 瘯cù🔊

  (skin disease)

  16 strokes

• 瘰luǒ🔊

  used in 瘰癧|瘰疬[luo3 li4]

  16 strokes

• 瘳chōu🔊

  to convalesce

  16 strokes

• 瘴zhàng🔊

  malaria

  16 strokes

• 瘵zhài🔊

  (literary) disease (esp. tuberculosis)

  16 strokes

• 瘿yǐng🔊

  goiter

  16 strokes

• 癀huáng🔊

  used in 癀病[huang2 bing4]

  16 strokes

• 癃lóng🔊

  infirmity

  16 strokes

• 癌ái🔊

  cancer; (esp.) carcinoma

  HSK 7

  17 strokes

• 癍bān🔊

  abnormal pigment deposit on the skin

  17 strokes

• 癖pǐ🔊

  habit

  18 strokes

• 癔yì🔊

  used in 癔病[yi4 bing4] and 癔症[yi4 zheng4]

  18 strokes

• 癕yōng🔊

  old variant of 癰|痈[yong1]

  18 strokes

• 癙shǔ🔊

  illness caused by worry

  18 strokes

• 癜diàn🔊

  erythema

  18 strokes

• 癞lài🔊

  scabies

  18 strokes

• 癣xuǎn🔊

  ringworm

  19 strokes

• 癫diān🔊

  mentally deranged

  21 strokes

• 癯qú🔊

  thin

  23 strokes