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肠

cháng

HSK 5 Character Traditional 腸

What 肠 means

1. intestines

Other readings

肠 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chángold variant of {肠|cháng}

Example sentences

• 他铁石心肠。
  Tā tiěshíxīncháng.
  He has a heart of stone.
• 她哭得肝肠寸断。
  Tā kū de gānchángcùnduàn.
  She cried her heart out.
• 你见过做香肠吗？
  Have you ever seen sausage being made?
• 我经常去重庆吃香肠
  Wǒ jīngcháng qù Chóngqìng chīxiāng cháng
  I often go to Chongqing to eat sausages.
• 你见过灌肠的做法吗？
  Nǐ jiànguo guàncháng de zuòfǎ ma?
  Have you ever seen sausage being made?
• 你要培根还是要香肠?
  Nǐ yào péigēn háishi yào xiāngcháng?
  Would you like bacon or sausage?

Words starting with 肠

• 肠胃cháng wèistomach and intestine; digestive system
• 肠子cháng ziintestines
• 肠道cháng dàointestines; gut
• 肠仔cháng zǐsausage
• 肠壁cháng bìwall of intestine; lining of gut
• 肠支cháng zhīcecum
• 肠炎cháng yánenteritis
• 肠管cháng guǎnintestine; gut
• 肠粉cháng fěnrice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with…
• 肠衣cháng yīsausage casing
• 肠镜cháng jìngcolonoscope; colonoscopy (abbr. for 肠镜检查
• 肠套叠cháng tào diéintussusception (medicine)
• 肠毒素cháng dú sùenterotoxins
• 肠病毒cháng bìng dúenterovirus
• 肠易激综合征cháng yì jī zōng hé zhēngirritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• 肠胃炎cháng wèi yángastroenteritis
• 肠胃道cháng wèi dàodigestive tract
• 肠蠕动cháng rú dòngperistalsis (wave movement of gut wall)

Words containing 肠

• 香肠xiāng chángsausage
• 心肠xīn chángheart; intention; one's inclination
• 饥肠辘辘jī cháng lù lù(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry
• 断肠duàn chángheartbroken; to break one's heart
• 大肠dà chángthe large intestine
• 火腿肠huǒ tuǐ chángham sausage
• 荡气回肠dàng qì huí chángheart-rending (drama, music, poem etc); deeply moving
• 灌肠guàn chángenema; to give an enema
• 小肠xiǎo chángsmall intestine
• 牵肠挂肚qiān cháng guà dùdeeply worried (idiom); to feel anxious
• 铁石心肠tiě shí xīn chángto have a heart of stone; hard-hearted; unfeeling
• 热心肠rè xīn chángwarmhearted; willing to help others
• 直肠zhí chángrectum (anatomy)
• 肝肠寸断gān cháng cùn duànlit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom); fig. grief-stricken
• 回肠huí chángileum (segment of small intestine between the jejunum 空肠
• 海肠hǎi chángpenis fish; fat innkeeper worm (Urechis unicinctus)
• 润肠rùn chángto ease constipation (TCM)
• 烤肠kǎo chánggrilled sausage; roasted sausage
• 热肠rè chángwarmhearted; enthusiastic
• 盲肠máng chángappendix (anatomy); cecum
• 空肠kōng chángjejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指肠
• 红肠hóng chángsaveloy
• 结肠jié chángcolon (large intestine)
• 肥肠féi chángpig-gut (large intestine used as foodstuff)

Characters built on 月

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

• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect
• 朗lǎngclear; bright
• 脏zāngdirty; filthy; to get (sth) dirty
• 胀zhàngto swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
• 胖pàngfat; plump
• 膀bǎngupper arm; wing
• 肪fánganimal fat
• 肛gāngused in 脱肛

Characters that look like 肠

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

• 场chǎnglarge place used for a specific purpose; stage; scene (of a play)
• 扬yángto raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 抬táito lift; to raise; (of two or more persons) to carry
• 杨yángpoplar
• 肽tàipeptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
• 驸fùprince consort

Sounds the same

Read cháng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 长long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte
• 常always; ever; often
• 尝to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
• 偿to repay; to compensate for; to recompense
• 倘used in 倘佯
• 裳lower garment; skirts; petticoats
• 苌plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit…
• 场threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
• 徜sit cross-legged; walk back and forth
• 嫦used in 嫦娥; used in female given names
• 镸"long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168)
• 鲿Bagridae (catfish family)