疯
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insane; mad; wild
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
insane · Heisig RSH #1294
sickness + windstorm
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 疯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人来疯 | to get hyped up in front of an audience; (of children) to play up in front of guests | |
| 林来疯 | Linsanity; craze over Jeremy Lin 林書豪|林书豪[Lin2 Shu1 hao2] | |
| 发酒疯 | to get wildly drunk | |
| 疯人院 | insane asylum; mental hospital | |
| 疯牛病 | mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) | |
| 羊角疯 | variant of 羊角風|羊角风[yang2 jiao3 feng1] | |
| 疯子 | madman; lunatic | |
| 撒酒疯 | to get drunk and act crazy; roaring drunk | |
| 气疯 | (coll.) to be driven crazy with anger | |
| 发疯 | to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind | |
| 疯传 | to spread like wildfire; to go viral | |
| 疯话 | crazy talk; ravings; nonsense | |
| 装疯卖傻 | (idiom) to play the fool; to feign madness; to act dumb | |
| 爱疯 | iPhone (slang) | |
| 麻疯 | leprosy; also written 麻風|麻风 | |
| 疯犹精 | (slang) person who is blindly pro-Israel | |
| 疯狗 | rabid dog; (fig.) vicious dog; aggressive dog; (fig.) vicious person; madman | |
| 枣疯病 | jujube witches' broom (infectious plant disease of jujube trees caused by Candidatus Phyto… | |
| 疯犬 | mad dog; rabid dog | |
| 疯狂 | crazy; frenzied; wild |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 风 — compare how they read.