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痤

cuó
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 acne; a small skin boil or pimple

Examples

HSK 7-9
很多青少年会长痤疮。
Hěnduō qīngshàonián huì zhǎng cuóchuāng.
Many teenagers get acne.
HSK 7-9
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.

Tips

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').

Components

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.

Stroke Order

痤 cuó