损
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(bound form) to decrease; to diminish; (bound form) to harm; to damage; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) mean; nasty; sarcastic
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How 损 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 员 (phonetic, yuán)
How to remember it
damage · Heisig RSH #1833
fingers + 员 employee
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 员
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 员 (yuán) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 员 sound component | yuán | employee; member; personnel, staff |
| 圆 | yuán | circle; circular, round; complete |
| 勋 | xūn | deeds, feats; merit; rank |
| 陨 | yǔn | to slip, to fall; to drop; to die |
| 殒 | yǔn | to die, to fall, to perish, to vanish |
| 郧 | yún | a county in Hubei province |
| 筼 | yún | tall bamboo |
| 埙 | xūn | ocarina |
Words containing 损
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重复性劳损 | chóng fù xìng láo sǔn | repetitive strain injury (RSI) |
| 皮层性视损伤 | pí céng xìng shì sǔn shāng | cortical visual impairment (CVI) |
| 损人不利己 | sǔn rén bù lì jǐ | to harm others without benefiting oneself (idiom) |
| 易损性 | yì sǔn xìng | vulnerability |
| 损人利己 | sǔn rén lì jǐ | harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom); personal gain to the detriment of other… |
| 香消玉损 | xiāng xiāo yù sǔn | see 香消玉殞|香消玉殒[xiang1 xiao1 yu4 yun3] |
| 损人 | sǔn rén | to harm others; to mock people; to taunt; humiliating |
| 无损 | wú sǔn | to do no harm (to sth); intact; (computing) lossless |
| 海损 | hǎi sǔn | damage to goods during shipping |
| 有损 | yǒu sǔn | to be harmful (to) |
| 完好无损 | wán hǎo wú sǔn | in good condition; undamaged; intact |
| 定损 | dìng sǔn | to assess damage or loss (for compensation, insurance etc) |
| 有损压缩 | yǒu sǔn yā suō | (computing) lossy compression |
| 视损伤 | shì sǔn shāng | visual impairment |
| 脑损伤 | nǎo sǔn shāng | brain damage |
| 全损 | quán sǔn | (insurance) total loss |
| 损公肥私 | sǔn gōng féi sī | to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expen… |
| 嘴损 | zuǐ sǔn | (dialect) sharp-tongued; harsh |
| 迟发性损伤 | chí fā xìng sǔn shāng | delayed lesion |
| 止损点 | zhǐ sǔn diǎn | (finance) stop-loss point (price at which one resolves to sell a security at a loss in ord… |