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肓

huāng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the region between the heart and the diaphragm

Examples

HSK 7-9
发现时，病已病入膏肓。
Fāxiàn shí, bìng yǐ bìngrùgāohuāng.
By the time it was discovered, the illness was beyond cure.
HSK 7-9
这家公司的腐败已经病入膏肓了。
Zhèjiā gōngsī de fǔbài yǐjīng bìngrùgāohuāng le.
Corruption in this company is already incurable.

Tips

history
Old medicine placed 肓 deep below the heart, a spot no remedy could reach. The idiom 病入膏肓 ('the disease has entered the vitals') comes from a Zuo Zhuan story and now describes any problem too far gone to fix. Don't confuse it with 盲 (blind).

Components

radical
⺼ ròu
flesh; body
The flesh radical at the bottom, the body-part form of 肉, marks this as a part of the body, here a deep region inside the torso.
phonetic
亡 wáng
to die; to lose
Carries the sound: 亡 shifts to huāng here, the same phonetic seen in 荒 and 慌.

Stroke Order

肓 huāng