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脓

nóng

Character Traditional 膿

What 脓 means

1. pus

Example sentences

• 伤口流出脓液。
  Shāngkǒu liúchū nóng yè.
  The wound discharged pus.
• 伤口已不流脓, 渐渐愈合了
  Shāngkǒu yǐ bù liúnóng, jiànjiàn yùhé le
  The cut is no longer weeping and is starting to heal.

Words starting with 脓

• 脓包nóng bāopustule; (fig.) worthless person; a good-for-nothing
• 脓水nóng shuǐpus
• 脓泡nóng pàopustule; pussy pimple; same as 脓包
• 脓液nóng yèpus
• 脓疱nóng pàopimple containing pus
• 脓肿nóng zhǒngabscess
• 脓毒症nóng dú zhèngsepsis
• 脓痂疹nóng jiā zhěnimpetigo (medicine)

Words containing 脓

• 化脓huà nóngto fester; to suppurate; to be infected
• 流脓liú nóngto discharge pus; to suppurate
• 溃脓huì nóng(of a sore etc) to fester; to ulcerate
• 化脓性huà nóng xìngpurulent (containing pus); septic
• 窝脓包wō nóng bāouseless weakling
• 龈脓肿yín nóng zhǒnggumboil

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.

• 肿zhǒngto swell; swelling; swollen
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 胴dònglarge intestine; torso
• 臃yōngused in 臃肿
• 肱gōngupper arm; arm
• 肜Róngsurname Rong
• 胨dòngsee 蛋白胨

Characters that look like 脓

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

• 脉màiarteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
• 胰yípancreas
• 胱guāngused in 膀胱
• 姝shūpretty woman
• 赊shēto buy or sell on credit; distant; long (time)
• 猕míused in 猕猴

Sounds the same

Read nóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 农(bound form) agriculture
• 浓concentrated; dense; strong (smell etc)
• 侬you (Wu dialect); I, me (classical)
• 哝(bound form) to mutter; to mumble
• 襛bright light; warm dress
• 㶶(dialect) to burn; to scorch
• 𬪩concentrated; strong wine
• 齈cold in the head catarrh of the nose
• 秾lush flora