Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/伤(傷)-shāng-wound,-injury;-injure,-hurt

伤(傷) shāng wound, injury; injure, hurt - Mandarin Chinese

Definition

Radical is 人 rén “person”, which is written 亻 when occurring at the left side of a character so as not to get in the way of the component at the right. The colloquial name for this radical is 人字旁 rénzìpáng “side made up of the character 人.” Distinguish traditional 傷 from traditional 場 chăng and traditional 陽 yáng.

Examples

• 受伤 (受傷) shòushāng suffer injury, be hurt [VO]

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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