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肿

zhǒng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 腫

What 肿 means

1. to swell
2. swelling
3. swollen

Example sentences

• 我有脑肿瘤。
  I have a brain tumor.
• 我的手和脚都肿了。
  Wǒ de shǒu hé jiǎo dōu zhǒng le.
  My hands and legs are swollen.
• 他被打得鼻青脸肿的。
  He was beaten black and blue.
• 你的腮帮子肿了多久了？
  How long have your cheeks been swollen?
• 我头撞到了门，肿了一块。
  Wǒ tóu zhuàngdào le mén, zhǒng le yī kuài.
  I bumped my head against the door and got a lump.
• 我得了胃肿瘤，必须动手术切除。
  Wǒ déle wèi zhǒngliú, bìxū dòngshǒu shù qiēchú.
  I got a stomach tumor and had to have it operated on.

Words starting with 肿

• 肿瘤zhǒng liútumor
• 肿胀zhǒng zhàngswelling; oedema; internal bruising
• 肿大zhǒng dàswelling; enlargement; hypertrophy
• 肿块zhǒng kuàiswelling; growth; tumor
• 肿么zhǒng meInternet slang for 怎么
• 肿瘤学zhǒng liú xuéoncology
• 肿瘤科zhǒng liú kēoncology
• 肿瘤切除术zhǒng liú qiè chú shùlumpectomy

Words containing 肿

• 浮肿fú zhǒng(nonspecialist term for 水肿
• 红肿hóng zhǒnginflamed; red and swollen
• 臃肿yōng zhǒngobese; bloated; swollen (style)
• 水肿shuǐ zhǒng(medicine) to suffer from edema (dropsy)
• 鼻青脸肿bí qīng liǎn zhǒnga bloody nose and a swollen face; badly battered
• 囊肿náng zhǒngcyst (med.)
• 消肿xiāo zhǒngto reduce swelling; detumescence; (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc)
• 血肿xuè zhǒnghematoma; swelling of soft tissue due to internal hemorrhage
• 青肿qīng zhǒngbruise
• 浮肿病fú zhǒng bìng(medicine) edema; dropsy
• 肺气肿fèi qì zhǒngemphysema
• 肺水肿fèi shuǐ zhǒngpulmonary edema
• 脑水肿nǎo shuǐ zhǒngcerebral edema
• 麦粒肿mài lì zhǒng(medicine) stye; hordeolum
• 甲状腺肿jiǎ zhuàng xiàn zhǒnggoiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
• 鼻青眼肿bí qīng yǎn zhǒnga black eye (idiom); serious injury to the face; fig. a setback; a defeat
• 脑肿瘤nǎo zhǒng liúbrain tumor
• 恶性肿瘤è xìng zhǒng liúmalignant tumor
• 良性肿瘤liáng xìng zhǒng liúbenign tumor
• 打肿脸充胖子dǎ zhǒng liǎn chōng pàng zilit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom)…
• 肉芽肿ròu yá zhǒng(pathology) granuloma
• 脓肿nóng zhǒngabscess
• 龈脓肿yín nóng zhǒnggumboil
• 霰粒肿xiàn lì zhǒng(medicine) chalazion

Characters built on 中

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

• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind
• 冲chōng(of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse
• 钟zhōnghandleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc); variant of 钟
• 仲zhòngsecond month of a season; middle; intermediate
• 虫chónglower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures…
• 忠zhōngloyal; devoted; faithful
• 衷zhōnginner feelings
• 忡chōnggrieved; distressed; sad

Characters that look like 肿

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

• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind
• 抖dǒuto tremble; to shake out; to reveal
• 绅shēnmember of gentry
• 矜jīnto boast; to esteem; to sympathize
• 肼jǐnghydrazine
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously

Sounds the same

Read zhǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 种seed; species; kind
• 冢mound; burial mound; senior (i.e. eldest child or senior in rank)
• 踵to arrive; to follow; heel
• 尰swell