疽
carbuncle
Readings
On'yomi
- ソ
- ショ
Kun'yomi
- かさ
Meaning
疽 centers on a deep, localized skin infection: a carbuncle, which is a cluster of boils caused by bacterial infection.
Most common words using 疽
20 of 22- 炭疽たんそ
anthrax
- 壊疽えそ
gangrene
- ひょう疽ひょうそ
whitlow; felon
- ガス壊疽ガスえそ
gas gangrene
- 人面疽じんめんそ
mythological growth (tumour) that takes the shape of a human face
- 気腫疽菌きしゅそきん
Clostridium chauvoei (bacteria that causes blackleg)
- 炭疽病たんそびょう
anthrax
- 炭疽菌たんそきん
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax bacteria)
- 疽そ
type of carbuncle
- 疽腫そしょう
swelling; boil
- 癰疽ようそ
any serious skin eruption
- 皮膚炭疽ひふたんそ
cutaneous anthrax
- 肺壊疽はいえそ
pulmonary gangrene; gangrenous pneumonia
- 肺炭疽はいたんそ
inhalation anthrax
- 胃腸炭疽いちょうたんそ
gastrointestinal anthrax
- 脱疽だっそ
gangrene
- 脾脱疽ひだっそ
anthrax
- 腸炭疽ちょうたんそ
intestinal anthrax
- 馬鼻疽ばびそ
glanders (contagious disease of horses)
- 骨疽こっそ
caries
Study
Etymology
疽 combines the sickness radical 疒 with the phonetic component 且, which likely contributed the sound and the idea of a deep-seated sore.
Meaning mnemonic
The sickness enclosure 疒 wraps around 且, like a deep, clustered infection hidden under the skin. Picture a painful carbuncle forming beneath the surface.
Reading mnemonic
For ソ, imagine a sore carbuncle that needs to be soothed: sore -> ソ, and the sickness enclosure holds the painful sore.