瘊 (hóu): a wart; used in 瘊子

Meanings

他手背上长了一个小瘊子。

Tā shǒubèi shàng zhǎng le yí gè xiǎo hóuzi.

A small wart grew on the back of his hand.

history

瘊 never stands alone; it appears only as 瘊子, the colloquial word for a wart (the medical term is 疣). Built on the sickness radical 疒 with phonetic 侯.

memory

Sickness radical 疒 wrapped around 侯: a small skin bump that sits up like a little lord, the 瘊子.

radical

疒 nè

sickness; ailment

The sickness radical 疒 wraps the top and left and marks 瘊 as a skin ailment. It is the indexing radical, common to disease characters.

phonetic

侯 hóu

marquis; (here) phonetic

The 侯 element supplies the sound hóu; it is purely phonetic in 瘊.

瘊 hóu