Chinese Character Wiki
痛

tòng

pain

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 甬 represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

疒  Meaning component

nè

  

sick

甬 sound component

甬  Sound component

yǒng, tǒng

  

path

Evolution

痛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
痛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
痛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

痛  

tòng

pain, ache; sorry, sad; bitter; ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly

Most common words with 痛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

痛苦

pain

痛

ache

疼痛

pain

头痛

to have a headache

痛快

delighted

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤoŋ-s

thuwngH

tòng

to be pained


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 57.8408% of movies

690th most common character in movies

730th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+75DB

Shuowen

“痛，病也。从疒，甬聲。”


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