神经痛

神經痛
shénjīngtòng
noun #31,270

Meanings

  1. 1 neuralgia
  2. 2 nerve pain

Examples

HSK 6
Tā huànyǒu sānchā shénjīngtòng.
He suffers from trigeminal neuralgia.
HSK 7-9
Tiānqì biànhuà shí tā de shénjīngtòng jiù fāzuò.
Her neuralgia flares up when the weather changes.

Tips

memory
Word-for-word transparent: 神经 ('nerve') + ('pain'). 神经 itself is built from ('spirit') + ('channel'), Chinese medicine's pre-modern term for the body's signal-carrying channels, repurposed as the calque for Western 'nerve'. So 神经痛 = 'spirit-channel pain'.

Stroke Order

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