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中风 (zhòng fēng) — to suffer a stroke (cerebrovascular accident)

Definition

Verb meaning 'to suffer a stroke' (cerebrovascular accident). The 风 is traditional medical imagery ('wind attack'); in modern Chinese it's almost always used for stroke, not literal wind.

verb
to suffer a stroke (cerebrovascular accident)

Examples

  • 中风，。
    Tā qù nián zhòng fēng le, xiàn zài hái zài kāng fù.
    He had a stroke last year and is still recovering.
  • ，。
    Wǒ nǎi nai zhōng guò liǎng cì fēng, dàn dōu tǐng guò lái le.
    My grandmother has had two strokes, but she got through both.
  • 中风。
    Tū rán zhòng fēng yào lì kè qù yī yuàn.
    If you suddenly have a stroke, you need to go to the hospital immediately.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

中zhōngbe struck
风fēngwind

中 means to be struck or hit, and 风 is the wind, so this describes being struck by wind.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The original picture showed a flagpole with a drum in the middle, set up in the center of a field.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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