鼽 (qiú): stuffy nose; nasal congestion

Meanings

1 stuffy nose; nasal congestion
2 runny nose (with clear discharge)

Characters

鼽

qiú

stuffy nose (archaic)

Examples

HSK 7-9

中医把常年性过敏性鼻炎称为鼽嚏证。

Zhōngyī bǎ chángniánxìng guòmǐnxìng bíyán chēngwéi qiútì zhèng.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls perennial allergic rhinitis the 'rhinorrhoea pattern'.

Tips

register

qiú is archaic - preserved chiefly in traditional Chinese medicine vocabulary as a diagnostic term for chronic nasal symptoms. The compound 鼽嚏 (nasal-discharge-and-sneezing) names a TCM pattern roughly corresponding to allergic rhinitis. Modern Mandarin uses 鼻塞 (stuffy nose), 流鼻涕 (runny nose), or 鼻炎 (rhinitis) - 鼽 is essentially never used in everyday speech or modern biomedical writing.

Components

radical

鼻 bí

nose

Left nose radical (Kangxi #209). The semantic anchor: 鼽 is a nasal condition. Same radical heads 鼻 (nose), 鼾 (snore).

phonetic

九 jiǔ

nine; supplying the sound

Right phonetic 九 - supplies the sound (jiǔ → qiú, a regular palatal-velar alternation). The same phonetic anchors 究 (investigate), 鸠 (dove), 仇 (enemy).