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疸

dǎn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 jaundice

Examples

新生儿有点黄疸，皮肤发黄。
Xīnshēng'ér yǒudiǎn huángdǎn, pífū fā huáng.
The newborn had a touch of jaundice and the skin looked yellowish.
黄疸常是肝脏出问题的信号。
Huángdǎn cháng shì gānzàng chū wèntí de xìnhào.
Jaundice is often a sign of a liver problem.

Tips

usage
疸 appears almost only in 黄疸, "jaundice", the yellowing of skin and eyes. A rare colloquial reading da occurs in a dialectal way of writing 疙瘩 ("a lump").

Components

radical
疒 nè
illness; sickness
疒 is the sickness radical, a person leaning on a sickbed. It marks 疸 as a disease.
phonetic
旦 dàn
dawn; daybreak
旦 supplies the sound (dàn shifted to dǎn) and carries no meaning here; the sun rising in 旦 is purely the phonetic in 疸.

Stroke Order

疸 dǎn