痛
ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #747 U+75DB
How 痛 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
疒 (semantic, “sickness”) + 甬 (phonetic, yǒng)
components: 疒 甬
How to remember it
ache · Heisig RSH #1293
sickness + chop-rack
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 甬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 甬 (yǒng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甬 sound component | yǒng | path; river in Ningbo; Ningbo |
| 通 | tōng | to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common |
| 勇 | yǒng | brave, courageous, fierce |
| 涌 | yǒng | to surge up, to bubble up, to gush forth |
| 桶 | tǒng | bucket, pail, tub; can, cask, keg |
| 诵 | sòng | to chant, to recite, to repeat, to read aloud |
| 俑 | yǒng | wooden figure buried with dead |
| 蛹 | yǒng | pupa, chrysalis |
| 捅 | tǒng | to jab, to poke |
| 恿 | yǒng | to instigate, to incite, to alarm |
| 埇 | yǒng | the name of a bridge |
| 踊 | yǒng | to leap |
| 勈 | yǒng | brave |
Words containing 痛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 群发性头痛 | qún fā xìng tóu tòng | cluster headache |
| 神经痛 | shén jīng tòng | neuralgia (medicine) |
| 头痛医头 | tóu tòng yī tóu | to treat the symptoms; reactive (rather than proactive) |
| 头痛医头,脚痛医脚 | tóu tòng yī tóu , jiǎo tòng yī jiǎo | to treat the symptoms rather than getting to the root of the problem (proverb); reactive (… |
| 万分痛苦 | wàn fēn tòng kǔ | excruciating |
| 长痛不如短痛 | cháng tòng bù rú duǎn tòng | better to just get the pain over with, rather than prolong the agony |
| 头痛 | tóu tòng | to have a headache |
| 心痛 | xīn tòng | to feel distressed about sth; heartache; cardiac pain |
| 痛心 | tòng xīn | grieved; pained |
| 无痛 | wú tòng | painless; pain-free |
| 坐骨神经痛 | zuò gǔ shén jīng tòng | sciatica |
| 骨痛热症 | gǔ tòng rè zhèng | Dengue fever; breakbone fever |
| 发痛 | fā tòng | to ache; to be sore; to feel painful |
| 痛车 | tòng chē | (ACG) car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga etc (orthographic borrowin… |
| 痛风 | tòng fēng | gout |
| 痛打 | tòng dǎ | to beat sb soundly |
| 痛点 | tòng diǎn | pain point; sore point |
| 病痛 | bìng tòng | slight illness; indisposition; ailment |
| 作痛 | zuò tòng | to ache |
| 痛不欲生 | tòng bù yù shēng | to be so in pain as to not want to live; to be so grieved as to wish one were dead |