鼽 (qiú): stuffy nose; nasal congestion

Meanings

1 stuffy nose; nasal congestion
2 runny nose (with clear discharge)

Characters

鼽

qiú

stuffy nose (archaic)

Examples

中医把常年性过敏性鼻炎称为鼽嚏证。

Zhōngyī bǎ chángnián xìng guòmǐn xìng bíyán chēngwéi qiútì zhèng.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls perennial allergic rhinitis the 'rhinorrhoea pattern'.

Tips

register

qiú is archaic — preserved chiefly in traditional Chinese medicine vocabulary as a diagnostic term for chronic nasal symptoms. The compound 鼽嚏 (nasal-discharge-and-sneezing) names a TCM pattern roughly corresponding to allergic rhinitis. Modern Mandarin uses 鼻塞 (stuffy nose), 流鼻涕 (runny nose), or 鼻炎 (rhinitis) — 鼽 is essentially never used in everyday speech or modern biomedical writing.

Components

radical

鼻 bí

nose

Left nose radical (Kangxi #209). The semantic anchor: 鼽 is a nasal condition. Same radical heads 鼻 (nose), 鼾 (snore).

phonetic

九 jiǔ

nine; supplying the sound

Right phonetic 九 — supplies the sound (jiǔ → qiú, a regular palatal-velar alternation). The same phonetic anchors 究 (investigate), 鸠 (dove), 仇 (enemy).