肠
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intestines
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 肉 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 腸
- Common rank
- #901
- Unicode
- U+80A0
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 肠 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ meaning “flesh” + 昜 sound ()
Components ⺼ 昜
How to remember it
intestines · Heisig RSH #1754
part of the body + piglets
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 肠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 花花肠子 | (slang) a cunning plot | |
| 海肠子 | (coll.) marine worm resembling intestines such as the spoon worm (echiuroid) or the peanut… | |
| 铁石心肠 | to have a heart of stone; hard-hearted; unfeeling | |
| 热心肠 | warmhearted; willing to help others | |
| 直肠子 | (coll.) forthright person | |
| 大肠包小肠 | small sausage in large sausage (pork sausage stuffed inside a glutinous rice sausage, a Ta… | |
| 羊肠小道 | road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road; fig. complicated and… | |
| 十二指肠 | duodenum | |
| 肠病毒 | enterovirus | |
| 大肠 | the large intestine | |
| 肠子 | intestines | |
| 心肠 | heart; intention; one's inclination; state of mind; to have the heart for sth; mood | |
| 香肠嘴 | swollen lips; overly plump lips | |
| 小肠 | small intestine | |
| 海肠 | penis fish; fat innkeeper worm (Urechis unicinctus) | |
| 肠道 | intestines; gut | |
| 肠毒素 | enterotoxins | |
| 红肠 | saveloy | |
| 空肠 | jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠[shi2 er4 … | |
| 肠管 | intestine; gut |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 昜 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昜 sound part | bright, glorious; to expand, to open up | |
| 场 | field, open space; market, square; stage | |
| 汤 | soup, gravy, broth; hot water | |
| 扬 | to flutter, to wave; to hoist, to raise; to praise | |
| 畅 | freely, smoothly; unrestrained | |
| 殇 | to die young; national mourning | |
| 疡 | sore, ulcer; infection | |
| 觞 | wine cup; to propose a toast; feast | |
| 炀 | to scorch, to roast, to melt | |
| 饧 | syrup, molasses, malt sugar; sticky |