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疮

chuāng

Character Traditional 瘡

What 疮 means

1. sore
2. skin ulcer

Words starting with 疮

• 疮口chuāng kǒuwound; open sore
• 疮疤chuāng bāscar
• 疮痕chuāng hénscar; scarred skin
• 疮疡chuāng yángsore; skin ulcer
• 疮痍chuāng yíwound; skin ulcer; (fig.) the desolation of trauma
• 疮痂chuāng jiāscab
• 疮痍满目chuāng yí mǎn mùsee 满目疮痍

Words containing 疮

• 痔疮zhì chuānghemorrhoid
• 冻疮dòng chuāngfrostbite; chilblains
• 口疮kǒu chuāngmouth ulcer
• 大疮dà chuāngsyphilis; syphilitic ulcer
• 挫疮cuò chuāngacne; pustule
• 暗疮àn chuāngacne
• 狼疮láng chuānglupus (skin disease)
• 天疱疮tiān pào chuāng(medicine) pemphigus
• 挖肉补疮wā ròu bǔ chuāngto cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse…
• 红斑狼疮hóng bān láng chuāng(medicine) lupus erythematosus
• 红斑性狼疮hóng bān xìng láng chuānglupus erythematosus
• 秃疮tū chuāng(dialect) favus of the scalp (skin disease)
• 褥疮rù chuāngbedsore
• 痤疮cuó chuāngacne
• 氯痤疮lǜ cuó chuāngchloracne
• 疥疮jiè chuāngscabies; welts
• 癞疮lài chuāngfavus (skin disease)
• 满目疮痍mǎn mù chuāng yía scene of devastation meets the eye everywhere one looks (idiom)
• 百孔千疮bǎi kǒng qiān chuāngheavily damaged; (fig.) full of holes; riddled with problems
• 全身性红斑狼疮quán shēn xìng hóng bān láng chuāngsystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• 千疮百孔qiān chuāng bǎi kǒngsee 百孔千疮
• 好了疮疤忘了痛hǎo le chuāng bā wàng le tòngsee 好了伤疤忘了疼

Characters built on 仓

These share the phonetic component 仓 (cāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 创chuàngto initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time)
• 怆chuàngmournful; sad; grieved

Characters that look like 疮

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 症zhèngdisease; illness
• 倦juàntired; weary; fatigued
• 骆luòcamel; white horse with a black mane (archaic)
• 痉jìngspasm
• 绥suíto pacify; Taiwan pr. suī
• 殇shāngto die in childhood; war dead

Sounds the same

Read chuāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 窗window
• 创(bound form) a wound; to wound
• 刱variant of 创
• 囱variant of 窗