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疼

téng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 2 Character

疼 (téng) means "(it) hurts; sore". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 疼 means

1. (it) hurts; sore
2. to love dearly

Example sentences

• 真疼。
  That hurts.
• 我头疼。
  I have a headache.
• 这里疼。
  I have a pain here.
• 我胃疼。
  My stomach hurts.
• 哪里疼?
  Where does it hurt?
• 哪儿疼？
  Where does it hurt?

Words starting with 疼

• 疼爱téng àito love dearly; to dote on (sb)
• 疼痛téng tòngpain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt; (of a person) to be in pain
• 疼惜téng xīto cherish; to dote on
• 疼死téng sǐto really hurt

Words containing 疼

• 心疼xīn téngto love dearly; to feel sorry for sb; to regret
• 头疼tóu téngheadache
• 生疼shēng téng(colloquial) very painful
• 酸疼suān téng(of muscles) to ache; sore
• 偏疼piān téngto favor a junior; to show favoritism to some juniors
• 蛋疼dàn téng(slang) ball-breaking; pain in the ass
• 止疼片zhǐ téng piānpainkiller; analgesic
• 慢性疼痛màn xìng téng tòngchronic pain
• 胃疼wèi téngstomachache
• 烧灼疼shāo zhuó téngburning pain
• 站着说话不腰疼zhàn zhe shuō huà bù yāo téng(saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter…
• 好了伤疤忘了疼hǎo le shāng bā wàng le téngto forget past pains once the wound has healed (idiom)
• 崽卖爷田不心疼zǎi mài yé tián bù xīn ténglit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom)…

Characters that look like 疼

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

• 疾jí(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 狠hěnruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
• 痒yǎngto itch; to tickle
• 豚túnsuckling pig
• 疱pàopimple; acne; blister
• 痔zhìpiles; hemorrhoid

Sounds the same

Read téng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 腾(bound form) to gallop; to prance; (bound form) to soar; to hover; to make room…
• 藤rattan; cane; vine
• 滕vassal state of Zhou in Shandong; surname Teng
• 誊to transcribe; to copy out
• 螣flying dragon
• 縢bind; cord; tie up
• 邆(used in place names)

Where 疼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & Illness (HSK 3), HSK 3 Characters · Set 32 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read téng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.