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患

huàn
verb HSK 7-9 #3,130

Meanings

  1. 1 to suffer
  2. 2 misfortune
  3. 3 trouble

Examples

他患了重病。
Tā huàn le zhòngbìng.
He contracted a serious illness.
这是一个隐患。
Zhè shì yíge yǐnhuàn.
This is a hidden danger.

Tips

usage
Common in 患者 (huànzhě, patient) and 隐患 (yǐnhuàn, hidden danger).

Components

radical
心 xīn
heart; mind
Bottom heart radical — the indexing component. Marks 患 as something that weighs on the heart: worry, illness, suffering, calamity. The classic phrase 患得患失 (worry about gaining and losing) anchors this mental-burden meaning. Same heart-base in 忠, 急, 思, 想.
phonetic
串 chuàn
string together; skewer
Top 串 supplies the sound — huàn drifted from chuàn through historical sound shift. 串 itself is a string of beads or coins threaded vertically. The skewered image carries a faint semantic echo too: troubles strung together one after another, weighing on the heart below.

Stroke Order

患 huàn