半身不遂

bànshēnbùsuí
idiom #36,831

Meanings

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

Examples

Zhòngfēng hòu tā luòxiàle bànshēnbùsuí de máobìng.
After the stroke, he was left with paralysis on one side of his body.
Jíshí zhìliáo kěyǐ bìmiǎn bànshēnbùsuí.
Prompt treatment can prevent hemiplegia.

Tips

history
From Zhang Zhongjing's 《》 (Han): 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