zhǒng

swell

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

中 sound component

  Sound component

zhōngzhòng

  

central

Evolution

肿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
肿 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
肿 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zhǒng

swell; swollen; swelling; to swell

Most common words with 肿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肿瘤

tumor

to swell

肿胀

swelling

水肿

dropsy

囊肿

cyst (med.)

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 9.5467% of movies

1855th most common character in movies

1792nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+80BF


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