Meaning & readings
pain, hurt, damage, bruise
Origin
The character 痛 combines the radical 疒, which classifies characters related to illness or bodily conditions, with 甬, a component that serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The 甬 component doesn't contribute meaning but rather tells you roughly how the character sounds. Together, these elements create a character that represents pain and injury—the category of sickness (疒) combined with the sound pattern (甬) produces a word for physical hurt or damage to the body.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 疒
- 甬
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 104
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #903 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+075DB