患
Meanings
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- 1.to suffer (from illness)
- 2.to contract (a disease)
- 3.misfortune
- 4.trouble
- 5.danger
- 6.worry
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Wiktionary
- 1.to contract (an illness); to suffer from; to be afflicted with
- 2.disease; illness
- 3.to worry; to feel anxious
- 4.disaster; calamity; catastrophe
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡroːns): phonetic 串 (OC *kroːns, *kʰjons) + semantic 心 (“heart”). Since Shuowen does not have the character 串, it interprets the character as phonetic 吅 (OC *qʰon, *sqʰon, *sɢoŋs) + semantic 丨 + semantic 心 (“heart”) – to pierce through something from the heart. Duan Yucai claims in his commentary that older copies of Shuowen actually have phonetic 毌 (OC *koːn, *koːns, “to pierce through”) + semantic 心 (“heart”) instead.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
患難見真情。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
老師患了重感冒。
The teacher had a bad cold.
週六，東京街上人滿為患。
The streets in Tokyo are full on Saturdays.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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