泻
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to flow out swiftly; to flood; a torrent; diarrhea; laxative
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 瀉
- Common rank
- #2,398
- Unicode
- U+6CFB
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
diarrhea · Heisig RSH #1034
水 water + 写 write
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 泻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 感染性腹泻 | infective diarrhea | |
| 上吐下泻 | to vomit and have diarrhea | |
| 排泻物 | variant of 排泄物[pai2 xie4 wu4] | |
| 山泥倾泻 | a landslide | |
| 流泻 | to flow; to flood | |
| 泻肚子 | see 瀉肚|泻肚[xie4 du4] | |
| 泻药 | laxative | |
| 泻剂 | laxative | |
| 番泻叶 | senna leaf (Folium sennae) | |
| 排泻 | variant of 排泄[pai2 xie4]; to excrete (urine, sweat etc) | |
| 补泻 | reinforcing and reducing methods (in acupuncture) | |
| 腹泻 | diarrhea; to have the runs | |
| 泻盐 | Epsom salts | |
| 泽泻 | common water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica); water plantain rhizome (used in TCM) | |
| 倾泻 | to pour down in torrents | |
| 泻肚 | to have diarrhea | |
| 奔泻 | (of torrents) to rush down; to pour down | |
| 乳糜泻 | celiac disease | |
| 泄泻 | (TCM) to have diarrhea | |
| 泄泻 | variant of 泄瀉|泄泻[xie4 xie4] |