损
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(bound form) to decrease; to diminish; (bound form) to harm; to damage; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) mean; nasty; sarcastic
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 損
- Common rank
- #1,230
- Unicode
- U+635F
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
damage · Heisig RSH #1833
fingers + 员 employee
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 损
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重复性劳损 | repetitive strain injury (RSI) | |
| 皮层性视损伤 | cortical visual impairment (CVI) | |
| 损人不利己 | to harm others without benefiting oneself (idiom) | |
| 易损性 | vulnerability | |
| 损人利己 | harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom); personal gain to the detriment of other… | |
| 香消玉损 | see 香消玉殞|香消玉殒[xiang1 xiao1 yu4 yun3] | |
| 损人 | to harm others; to mock people; to taunt; humiliating | |
| 无损 | to do no harm (to sth); intact; (computing) lossless | |
| 海损 | damage to goods during shipping | |
| 有损 | to be harmful (to) | |
| 完好无损 | in good condition; undamaged; intact | |
| 定损 | to assess damage or loss (for compensation, insurance etc) | |
| 有损压缩 | (computing) lossy compression | |
| 视损伤 | visual impairment | |
| 脑损伤 | brain damage | |
| 全损 | (insurance) total loss | |
| 嘴损 | (dialect) sharp-tongued; harsh | |
| 损公肥私 | to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expen… | |
| 迟发性损伤 | delayed lesion | |
| 损失 | loss; damage; CL:個|个[ge4]; to lose; to suffer damage |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 员 — compare how they read.