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痪

huàn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 瘓

What 痪 means

1. used in {瘫痪|tān huàn}

Example sentences

• 全面罢工瘫痪了整个国家。
  Quánmiàn bàgōng tānhuàn le zhěnggè guójiā.
  The general strike paralyzed the whole country.
• 他的瘫痪正在恶化，不久他就不能下床了。
  Tā de tānhuàn zhèngzài èhuà, bù jiǔ tā jiù bù néng xià chuáng le.
  His paralysis is progressing, and soon he won't be able to get out of bed.
• 在你面前有一百万美金。你可以自己留下或帮一个你不认识的快全身瘫痪的人做手术。他不认识你，你也不认识他。当然，无论你慷慨地把所有的钱都捐给了一个素不相识的人去做手术，还是卑鄙地拿走这笔钱，让那个人今生都只能卧床不起，都不会有人知道。你会怎幺做呢？这笔钱不可割分。
  You've got a million dollars in front of you. You can either spend it for yourself or spend it on a surgery for someone you don't know who is in danger of quadriplegia. You don't know each other. And no one will ever know what a noble deed you've done sacrificing all the money for the surgery for a person you don't know, or how mean you were to take the money confining that person to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. So what would you do? You can't share the money.

Words containing 痪

• 瘫痪tān huàn(medicine) to suffer paralysis; (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down…
• 陷于瘫痪xiàn yú tān huànto be paralyzed; to come to a standstill

Characters built on 奂

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

• 换huànto exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute
• 唤huànto call
• 焕huàn(bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
• 涣huànto dissipate; to dissolve

Characters that look like 痪

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

• 痕hénscar; traces
• 痤cuóacne
• 痰tánphlegm; spittle
• 痿wěiatrophy
• 痞pǐconstipation; lump in the abdomen
• 痍yíbruise; sores

Sounds the same

Read huàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 换to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute
• 幻fantasy
• 患to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 唤to call
• 浣to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty)
• 焕(bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
• 宦imperial official; court eunuch
• 奂excellent
• 涣to dissipate; to dissolve
• 豢to rear; to raise (animals)
• 轘to tear between chariots (as punishment)
• 鲩grass carp