伤愈 (shāng yù) — to recover from an injury; to heal

Definition

verb

to recover from an injuryto heal

伤愈。
Tā shòu shāng hòu hěn kuài jiù shāng yù le.
He recovered from his injury very quickly.
，伤愈。
Jīng guò sān gè yuè zhì liáo, tā de tuǐ shāng zhōng yú shāng yù le.
After three months of treatment, her leg injury finally healed.
伤愈。
Yī shēng shuō tā xū yào xiū yǎng liǎng gè yuè cái néng wán quán shāng yù.
The doctor said he needs to rest for two months to fully recover.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

伤 (injury) and 愈 (heal) form the idea that an injury heals, i.e. recovering from it.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 傷; 伤 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

𥏻

𥏻𥏻傷shāng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 傷 shows 人, a person, and uses 𥏻 to give the sound; the simplified 伤 is a later shorthand.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.