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瘡

wound, boil, syphilis

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Readings

On'yomi

  • ソウ
  • ショウ

Kun'yomi

  • かさ

Meaning

瘡 centers on visible skin afflictions: a wound, a boil, or the sores of syphilis. The common thread is a painful, often infected, lesion on the body.

Most common words using 瘡

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  • 瘡蓋かさぶた

    scab; crust

  • 瘡かさ

    pustule; scab

  • 瘡くさ

    eczema

  • 水疱瘡みずぼうそう

    chickenpox; chicken pox; varicella

  • 疱瘡ほうそう

    smallpox; variola

  • ざ瘡ざそう

    acne

  • 人面瘡じんめんそう

    mythological growth (tumour) that takes the shape of a human face

  • 凍瘡とうそう

    chilblains; frostbite

  • 唐瘡とうがさ

    syphilis

  • 天疱瘡てんぽうそう

    pemphigus

  • 尋常性ざ瘡じんじょうせいざそう

    acne vulgaris; acne

  • 尋常性狼瘡じんじょうせいろうそう

    lupus vulgaris

  • 楊梅瘡ようばいそう

    syphilis

  • 毛瘡もうそう

    sycosis; hair follicle inflammation; barber's itch

  • 狼瘡ろうそう

    lupus

  • 疱瘡神ほうそうがみ

    smallpox demon; smallpox devil; deity to whom one prays for immunity to smallpox

  • 痘瘡とうそう

    smallpox; variola

  • 瘡かきかさかき

    person with a skin disease (esp. syphilis); syphilitic patient

  • 瘡っかきかさっかき

    person with skin disease (esp. syphilis)

  • 瘡毒そうどく

    syphilis

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Study

Etymology

瘡 combines the sickness radical 疒 with 倉, which likely provides the sound. The character originally referred to skin sores or boils.

Meaning mnemonic

The sickness enclosure 疒 wraps around 倉, like a warehouse of illness on the skin. Picture a painful boil or wound stored up inside the body, breaking out as a visible sore.

Reading mnemonic

For ソウ, imagine a sore wound being sewn up: sew -> ソウ, and the sickness enclosure 疒 holds the painful boil that needs stitching.