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 5
Zhòngfēng hòu tā luòxià le bànshēn-bùsuí de máobìng.
After the stroke, he was left with paralysis on one side of his body.
HSK 5
Jíshí zhìliáo kěyǐ bìmiǎn bànshēn-bùsuí.
Prompt treatment can prevent hemiplegia.

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 遂 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

半 bàn
身 shēn
不 bù
遂 suì