liú

tumor

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

留 sound component

  Sound component

liú

  

to stay

Evolution

瘤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瘤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

liú

tumor, lump, goiter; tumor

() 

liú

old variant of [liú]

Most common words with 瘤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肿瘤

tumor

tumor

脑瘤

brain tumor

恶性肿瘤

malignant tumor

毒瘤

malignant tumor

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.6864% of movies

1916th most common character in movies

2141st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7624

Shuowen

“瘤(癅),腫也。从疒,畱聲。”


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