痤 (cuó): acne; a small skin boil or pimp…

Meanings

很多青少年会长痤疮。

Hěnduō qīngshàonián huì zhǎng cuóchuāng.

Many teenagers get acne.

医生开了一些治痤疮的药。

Yīshēng kāi le yìxiē zhì cuóchuāng de yào.

The doctor prescribed some medicine for the acne.

usage

痤 almost always appears as 痤疮, the medical term for acne. In casual speech people more often say 青春痘 ('youth pimples').

radical

疒 nè

illness; sickness

The sickness radical 疒 wraps the top and left of nearly all disease characters; it instantly marks 痤 as a skin ailment.

phonetic

坐 zuò

to sit

坐 supplies the sound (shifted from zuò to cuó); the same phonetic appears in 挫, and it carries no meaning here.

痤 cuó