血崩 (xuè bēng) — metrorrhagia; abnormal uterine bleeding (a medical condition)

Definition

Literally 'blood collapse', a vivid TCM-style term for metrorrhagia — sudden, heavy abnormal uterine bleeding. Used in medical contexts to describe a serious gynecological emergency.

noun
metrorrhagiaabnormal uterine bleeding (a medical condition)

Examples

  • 血崩。
    Tā yīn wèi xuè bēng zhù jìn le yī yuàn.
    She was hospitalized because of metrorrhagia.
  • 血崩，。
    Yī shēng shuō tā dé le xuè bēng, xū yào mǎ shàng zhì liáo.
    The doctor said she has metrorrhagia and needs immediate treatment.
  • 血崩。
    xuè bēng Shì yì zhǒng yán zhòng de fù kē jí bìng.
    Metrorrhagia is a serious gynecological disease.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

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

血xuèblood
崩bēngburst; collapse

“血” (blood) and “崩” (burst/collapse) picture blood bursting out.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

  • 一一yīdrop of blood
  • 皿皿mǐncontainer

The shape shows 一, a drop of blood, inside 皿, a container, for blood held in a sacrificial vessel.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
山山shānmountain
Sound part声符shēngfú
朋
朋péng崩bēng
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

崩 uses 山 (mountain) to show a mountain collapsing, with 朋 added for the sound.

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