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瘀滞

yū zhì

2-character word Traditional 瘀滯

What 瘀滞 means

1. (in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids)

The characters in 瘀滞

• 瘀yūhematoma (internal blood clot); extravasated blood (spilt into surrounding tissue)…
• 滞zhì(bound form) sluggish; stagnant

Sounds the same

Read yū zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 淤滞silted up; obstructed by silt; variant of 瘀滞
• 迂滞high-sounding and impractical

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