liú
tumor
Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 留 represents the sound. Simplified form of 癅.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 瘤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
tumor | ||
tumor | ||
brain tumor | ||
malignant tumor | ||
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。” |
Sources
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