肿
to swell; swelling; swollen
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How 肿 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ (semantic, “flesh”) + 中 (phonetic, zhōng)
How to remember it
swollen · Heisig RSH #1505
flesh + 中 middle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 中
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 中 (zhōng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中 sound component | zhōng | central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese |
| 虫 | chóng | insect, worm; mollusk |
| 种 | zhǒng | race, kind, breed; seed; to plant |
| 冲 | chōng | wash, rinse, flush; dash; soar |
| 钟 | zhōng | clock; bell |
| 忠 | zhōng | loyalty, devotion, fidelity |
| 盅 | zhōng | small cup or bowl |
| 忡 | chōng | sad, grieving; distressed, uneasy |
Words containing 肿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 脑水肿 | nǎo shuǐ zhǒng | cerebral edema |
| 鼻青眼肿 | bí qīng yǎn zhǒng | a black eye (idiom); serious injury to the face; fig. a setback; a defeat |
| 鼻青脸肿 | bí qīng liǎn zhǒng | a bloody nose and a swollen face; badly battered |
| 浮肿病 | fú zhǒng bìng | (medicine) edema; dropsy |
| 肿大 | zhǒng dà | swelling; enlargement; hypertrophy |
| 打肿脸充胖子 | dǎ zhǒng liǎn chōng pàng zi | lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by… |
| 水肿 | shuǐ zhǒng | (medicine) to suffer from edema (dropsy) |
| 红肿 | hóng zhǒng | inflamed; red and swollen |
| 甲状腺肿 | jiǎ zhuàng xiàn zhǒng | goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland) |
| 国际肿瘤研究机构 | Guó jì Zhǒng liú Yán jiū Jī gòu | International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) |
| 血肿 | xuè zhǒng | hematoma; swelling of soft tissue due to internal hemorrhage |
| 青肿 | qīng zhǒng | bruise |
| 肿瘤切除术 | zhǒng liú qiè chú shù | lumpectomy |
| 恶性肿瘤 | è xìng zhǒng liú | malignant tumor |
| 良性肿瘤 | liáng xìng zhǒng liú | benign tumor |
| 肺水肿 | fèi shuǐ zhǒng | pulmonary edema |
| 肺气肿 | fèi qì zhǒng | emphysema |
| 消肿 | xiāo zhǒng | to reduce swelling; detumescence; (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc) |
| 肿瘤学 | zhǒng liú xué | oncology |
| 肿瘤科 | zhǒng liú kē | oncology |