Dictionary › 痼疾

痼疾

gù jí

2-character word

What 痼疾 means

1. chronic disease

The characters in 痼疾

• 痼gùobstinate disease; (of passion, hobbies) long-term
• 疾jí(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor

Sounds the same

Read gù jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 顾及to take into consideration; to attend to

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gù jí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.