肿

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to swell; swelling; swollen

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

⺼ meaning “flesh” + 中 sound ( zhōng )

Components ⺼中

swollen · Heisig RSH #1505

flesh + 中 middle

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
脑水肿	nǎo shuǐ zhǒng	cerebral edema
鼻青眼肿	bí qīng yǎn zhǒng	a black eye (idiom); serious injury to the face; fig. a setback; a defeat
鼻青脸肿	bí qīng liǎn zhǒng	a bloody nose and a swollen face; badly battered
浮肿病	fú zhǒng bìng	(medicine) edema; dropsy
肿大	zhǒng dà	swelling; enlargement; hypertrophy
打肿脸充胖子	dǎ zhǒng liǎn chōng pàng zi	lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by…
水肿	shuǐ zhǒng	(medicine) to suffer from edema (dropsy)
红肿	hóng zhǒng	inflamed; red and swollen
甲状腺肿	jiǎ zhuàng xiàn zhǒng	goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
国际肿瘤研究机构	Guó jì Zhǒng liú Yán jiū Jī gòu	International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
血肿	xuè zhǒng	hematoma; swelling of soft tissue due to internal hemorrhage
青肿	qīng zhǒng	bruise
肿瘤切除术	zhǒng liú qiè chú shù	lumpectomy
恶性肿瘤	è xìng zhǒng liú	malignant tumor
良性肿瘤	liáng xìng zhǒng liú	benign tumor
肺水肿	fèi shuǐ zhǒng	pulmonary edema
肺气肿	fèi qì zhǒng	emphysema
消肿	xiāo zhǒng	to reduce swelling; detumescence; (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc)
肿瘤学	zhǒng liú xué	oncology
肿瘤科	zhǒng liú kē	oncology

Characters sharing the sound component 中 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
中 sound part	zhōng	central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese
虫	chóng	insect, worm; mollusk
种	zhǒng	race, kind, breed; seed; to plant
冲	chōng	wash, rinse, flush; dash; soar
钟	zhōng	clock; bell
忠	zhōng	loyalty, devotion, fidelity
盅	zhōng	small cup or bowl
忡	chōng	sad, grieving; distressed, uneasy