偏头痛

偏頭痛

piāntóutòng

noun

Meanings

HSK 6

我妈妈经常犯偏头痛。

Wǒ māma jīngcháng fàn piāntóutòng.

My mom often gets migraines.

HSK 7-9

偏头痛发作的时候，他怕光又怕吵，只能躺在黑屋子里。

Piāntóutòng fāzuò de shíhou, tā pà guāng yòu pà chǎo, zhǐnéng tǎng zài hēi wūzi lǐ.

When a migraine strikes, he can't stand light or noise and can only lie in a dark room.

memory

偏 "to one side" + 头痛 "headache": a migraine often hurts on one side of the head. An attack takes the verb 犯: 犯偏头痛.

偏 piān

头 tóu

痛 tòng