yǎng

itch

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

養 sound component

  Sound component

yǎng

  

raise, bring up

Definitions

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yǎng

itch; to itch; to tickle

Most common words with 癢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to itch

痒痒

to itch

瘙痒

to itch

发痒

to tickle

无关痛痒

not to affect sb

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.ɢaŋʔ

yangX

yǎng

itch


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.0708% of movies

2227th most common character in movies

2646th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+7662


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