疣 (yóu): wart

Measure Word

一颗疣 kē

Meanings

1 wart
2 verruca
3 skin nodule

Characters

疣

yóu

wart; skin growth

Examples

她手上长了一颗疣。

Tā shǒushang zhǎng le yī kē yóu.

She grew a wart on her hand.

医生用冷冻疗法去除疣。

Yīshēng yòng lěngdòng liáofǎ qùchú yóu.

The doctor removed the wart with cryotherapy.

足底疣很难治疗。

Zúdǐ yóu hěn nán zhìliáo.

Plantar warts are difficult to treat.

Tips

usage

疣 is the clinical/medical term for warts. In everyday speech people may also say 瘊子 for a wart, especially in northern dialects.

Components

radical

疒 nè

sickness (radical)

Sickness radical wraps the upper-left - pictograph of a person reclining on a sickbed - marks 疣 as a medical or pathological term. Same radical drives 病 (illness), 痛 (pain), 疼 (ache), 癌 (cancer). Almost all disease and bodily-affliction chars sit under this radical.

phonetic

尤 yóu

outstanding; especially

尤 supplies the sound directly - yóu with matching tone - making this a clean phonetic match. Faint semantic flavor: a wart is an outstanding (protruding) growth on the skin. Same 尤 phonetic also drives 优 (yōu, excellent), 忧 (yōu, worry), 犹 (yóu, like).