半身不遂

bànshēn-bùsuí
idiom #36,831

Meanings

  1. 1 hemiplegia; paralysis of one side of the body
  2. 2 partial stroke-like paralysis

Examples

HSK 4
Jíshí zhìliáo kěyǐ bìmiǎn bànshēn-bùsuí.
Prompt treatment can prevent hemiplegia.
HSK 7-9
Zhòngfēng hòu tā luòxià le bànshēn-bùsuí de máobìng.
After the stroke, he was left with paralysis on one side of his body.

Tips

history
From Zhang Zhongjing's 《金匮要略》 (Han): 夫风之为病,当半身不遂 - 'when wind becomes an illness, it causes one-sided non-response of the body.' Chinese medicine's classical term for stroke paralysis, now standard modern medical Chinese.
mistakes
The character here reads suí ('to follow, respond'), not the usual suì. Same character as in 毛遂自荐 (suì) - but here with its rarer reading.

Stroke Order

bàn
shēn
suì