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Kotomora

疽

carbuncle

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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

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  • 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

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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.