shù
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 an acupuncture point; used in 腧穴

Examples

Zhēnjiǔshī zài bìngrén bèishàng zhǎodào le shùxué.
The acupuncturist found the acupuncture point on the patient's back.

Tips

history
is a traditional-medicine term that never stands alone; it appears as 腧穴 (acupuncture point) or in point names like 肺腧. Built with the flesh radical and phonetic , it lives only in acupuncture vocabulary.
memory
Flesh radical plus (a hollow / channel): a point on the flesh where the body's channels can be accessed.

Components

radical
ròu
flesh; body
The flesh radical ⺼ (the body-part form of ) marks as a point on the body and is its indexing radical.
phonetic
a dugout boat; a channel
The element supplies the sound and a faint 'hollowed channel' flavor, fitting a point where the body's pathways surface.

Stroke Order

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