疣 (yóu): wart

Measure Word

一颗疣 kē

Meanings

1 wart
2 verruca
3 skin nodule

Characters

疣

yóu

wart; skin growth

Examples

HSK 5

她手上长了一颗疣。

Tā shǒushang zhǎng le yī kē yóu.

She grew a wart on her hand.

HSK 6

足底疣很难治疗。

Zúdǐ yóu hěn nán zhìliáo.

Plantar warts are difficult to treat.

HSK 7-9

医生用冷冻疗法去除疣。

Yīshēng yòng lěngdòng liáofǎ qùchú yóu.

The doctor removed the wart with cryotherapy.

Tips

usage

疣 is the clinical/medical term for warts. In everyday speech people may also say 瘊子 for a wart, especially in northern dialects.

Components

radical

疒 nè

sickness (radical)

Sickness radical wraps the upper-left - pictograph of a person reclining on a sickbed - marks 疣 as a medical or pathological term. Same radical drives 病 (illness), 痛 (pain), 疼 (ache), 癌 (cancer). Almost all disease and bodily-affliction chars sit under this radical.

phonetic

尤 yóu

outstanding; especially

尤 supplies the sound directly - yóu with matching tone - making this a clean phonetic match. Faint semantic flavor: a wart is an outstanding (protruding) growth on the skin. Same 尤 phonetic also drives 优 (yōu, excellent), 忧 (yōu, worry), 犹 (yóu, like).