腸
intestines, guts, bowels, viscera
Readings
On'yomi
- チョウ
Kun'yomi
- はらわた
- わた
Meaning
腸 centers on the internal digestive tubes: the intestines, guts, bowels, and viscera. All meanings refer to the same coiled, tubular organs inside the abdomen.
Most common words using 腸
20 of 145- 腸ちょうN1
intestine; bowel
- 胃腸いちょうN1
stomach and intestines; gastrointestinal tract; digestive organs
- 大腸だいちょう
large intestine; large bowel; colon
- 浣腸かんちょう
enema
- 大腸菌だいちょうきん
Escherichia coli (E. coli)
- 直腸ちょくちょう
rectum
- 盲腸もうちょうN1
cecum; caecum; blind gut
- 小腸しょうちょう
small intestine
- 十二指腸じゅうにしちょう
duodenum
- 腸管ちょうかん
digestive tract
- 結腸けっちょう
colon
- 断腸だんちょう
heartbreak; grief; sorrow
- 腸閉塞ちょうへいそく
intestinal obstruction; ileus
- 腸チフスちょうチフス
typhoid fever; typhoid
- 整腸剤せいちょうざい
medicine for treating digestive disorders (e.g. antidiarrheals, probiotics); gastrointestinal drug
- 腸炎ちょうえん
enteritis
- 胃腸薬いちょうやくN1
digestive medicine; medicine for the stomach and bowels
- S字結腸エスじけっちょう
sigmoid colon
- S状結腸エスじょうけっちょう
sigmoid colon
- カルバペネム耐性腸内細菌カルバペネムたいせいちょうないさいきん
carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae; CRE
Study
Etymology
腸 combines the flesh radical ⺼ (body part) with 昜, which likely contributes the sound チョウ and may have originally depicted something stretched or extended, fitting the long, coiled shape of intestines.
Meaning mnemonic
The flesh radical ⺼ on the left indicates a body part, and the right side 昜 looks like a stretched, coiled tube. Picture the long, winding intestines inside your belly.
Reading mnemonic
For チョウ, imagine a long intestine stretching like a chō (ちょー) long tube: the exaggerated length cues チョウ, and the tube shape matches the guts.