瘡
wound, boil, syphilis
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
20 of 30- 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
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.