毒
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poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 毋 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 毒
- Common rank
- #287
- Unicode
- U+6BD2
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Formation & memory
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How 毒 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
龶 meaning “a poisonous plant” + 母 sound ()
How to remember it
poison · Heisig RSH #1205
grow up + 母 mother
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 毒
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水中毒 | water intoxication; water poisoning | |
| 病毒学家 | virologist (person who studies viruses) | |
| 中毒性 | poisonous; toxic | |
| 天花病毒 | variola virus | |
| 毒理学 | toxicology | |
| 下毒手 | to attack murderously; to strike treacherously | |
| 病毒学 | virology (study of viruses) | |
| 病毒性 | viral | |
| 木马病毒 | Trojan horse (type of computer virus) | |
| 中毒者 | poisoned person (food poisoning, drug overdose or toxic exposure); (coll.) addict; junkie;… | |
| 中毒 | to be poisoned | |
| 心毒 | cruel; vicious | |
| 无毒 | harmless; innocuous; lit. not poisonous | |
| 布尼亚病毒 | Bunyavirus; virus of the family Bunyaviridae | |
| 食物中毒 | food poisoning | |
| 毒性 | toxicity | |
| 有毒 | poisonous | |
| 毒化 | to poison (usu. figuratively); to debase; to pervert; to harm | |
| 动物毒素 | zootoxin | |
| 毒手 | deadly blow; vicious attack; treacherous assault |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 母 — compare how they read.