noun #6,336

Measure Word

一道 dào

Meanings

  1. 1 scar
  2. 2 mark from a wound

Characters

Examples

Tā liǎnshàng yǒu yīdào bā.
He has a scar on his face.
Zhège shāngkǒu huì liúxià bā ma?
Will this wound leave a scar?

Tips

usage
is the short form. The full word is 疤痕 (bāhén). alone is more casual and common in speech.

Components

radical
sickness; ailment
The sickness radical wraps the top-left — a pictograph of a person on a bed, used for everything related to illness, injury, and bodily damage. Its presence in ache, illness, pain, mark instantly classes as a wound. Here it tells you the inside isn't a snake — it's a scar.
phonetic
to cling; cling-mark (here phonetic)
Inside is , supplying the sound bā exactly. It originally pictured a coiled snake or clinging shape — fittingly, the leftover mark a wound clings to the skin. Same phonetic in to hold, dad, sentence-final particle. Here: the cling-shape under the sickness wrap = a clinging scar.

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