痨 (láo): tuberculosis (common name)

Meanings

1 tuberculosis (common name)
2 consumption; wasting disease

Characters

痨

láo

tuberculosis

Examples

旧时人们把肺结核叫做痨病。

Jiù shí rénmen bǎ fèijiéhé jiào zuò láo bìng.

In the old days people called tuberculosis 'the wasting disease'.

Tips

register

痨 is the folk name for tuberculosis, mostly seen in older texts and the fixed word 痨病. Modern medicine uses 结核.

Components

radical

疒 nè

sickness; illness radical

The sickness radical 疒, a person on a sickbed, wraps the top and left. It marks 痨 as a disease word, the same family as 病 and 疼.

phonetic

劳 láo

toil; exhaustion

Inside sits 劳 (toil), giving the sound láo with no tone shift. It also hints at the meaning: this was seen as an illness of overwork and exhaustion that wears the body down.

Stroke Order

痨 láo

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