疹 (zhěn) · rash, measles, skin eruption

Measure Word

一块疹 kuài

Meanings

1 rash
2 measles
3 skin eruption

Characters

疹

zhěn

rash / measles / skin eruption

Examples

HSK 4

孩子身上起了疹，需要去看医生。

Háizi shēnshàng qǐ le zhěn, xūyào qù kàn yīshēng.

The child has developed a rash and needs to see a doctor.

HSK 7-9

麻疹是一种传染性很强的疾病。

Mázhěn shì yì zhǒng chuánrǎnxìng hěn qiáng de jíbìng.

Measles is a highly contagious disease.

Tips

memory

疹 contains the sickness radical 疒 on the left, signaling it's a medical term. The right component 㐱 gives the pronunciation.

Components

radical

疒 nè

sickness (radical)

Top-left sickness radical - pictograph of a person lying on a bed propped against a wall, the standard wrapper for illness chars. The indexing radical here, supplying the meaning: 疹 names a rash or skin eruption such as measles 麻疹 or hives. Same radical sits in 病 illness, 痛 pain, 疫 epidemic, 疗 treat.

phonetic

㐱 zhěn

thick hair

Inner-right 㐱 supplies the sound - zhěn read straight across with no shift. 㐱 itself depicts hair growing in thick fine strands, the three slanting strokes evoking dense pile. A faint semantic match also rides along: a rash is a dense scatter of small bumps across the skin, mirroring the thick-strand picture. Same phonetic gives 诊 diagnose and 珍 precious.