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瘫

tān

HSK 6 Character Traditional 癱

What 瘫 means

1. paralyzed

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 starting with 瘫

• 瘫痪tān huàn(medicine) to suffer paralysis; (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down…
• 瘫软tān ruǎnlimp; weak
• 瘫子tān ziparalyzed person

Words containing 瘫

• 偏瘫piān tānparalysis of one side of the body; hemiplegia
• 截瘫jié tānparaplegia; paralysis
• 脑瘫nǎo tāncerebral palsy
• 面瘫miàn tānfacial nerve paralysis
• 风瘫fēng tānto be paralyzed
• 北京瘫Běi jīng tān"Beijing slouch", sitting posture said to be adopted esp. by Beijingers, popularized by 葛优
• 高位截瘫gāo wèi jié tān(medicine) high paraplegia
• 陷于瘫痪xiàn yú tān huànto be paralyzed; to come to a standstill
• 疯瘫fēng tānvariant of 风瘫

Characters built on 难

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

• 滩tānbeach; shoal; rapids
• 摊tānto spread out; vendor's stand

Characters that look like 瘫

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

• 璃lí(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 榻tàcouch
• 瘾yǐnaddiction; craving
• 耦ǒua pair; a mate; a couple
• 羯jiéram, esp. gelded; to castrate; deer's skin
• 踊yǒngleap

Sounds the same

Read tān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 滩beach; shoal; rapids
• 摊to spread out; vendor's stand
• 贪to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
• 坍to collapse
• 怹he; she; (courteous, as opposed to 他
• 啴used in 啴啴