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Meaning of 肿

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(Trad.: 腫)
Pinyin: zhǒng
English Definition: to swell; swelling; swollen
Chinese Definition:
①皮肉浮胀:肿胀。肿瘤。肿痛。浮肿。红肿。脓肿。臃肿。
Total strokes: 8; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (flesh) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • meat, flesh; organic compound
    • [ zhōng ] central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese
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Example Words
肿瘤 zhǒng liú tumor
臃肿 yōng zhǒng obese; bloated; swollen (style); (fig.) (of an organization) oversized or overstaffed
浮肿 zhǒng swollen; bloated; edema; dropsy
红肿 hóng zhǒng inflamed; red and swollen
水肿 shuǐ zhǒng (med.) edema; dropsy
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Example Sentences
1
The flesh around the ankle had swollen up.
2
退
Many cat lovers live with a dilemma: they want to pick up the animals and hold them close, but if they do, their eyes will swell up and they'll start sneezing.
3
尿西
I'm going to work, and my punched-out eye sockets are two swollen-up black bagels around the little piss holes I have left to see through.
4
Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds.
5
When we went out that night it had been so swollen that it looked like a big pink potato with toes. But now it was back to its normal size.