(téng) - to ache, to hurt, to dote on in Mandarin
téngTraditional: 疼
Translation
to ache, to hurt, to dote on
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the sickness radical 疒 (chuáng, illness) marking it as a bodily condition and 冬 (dōng) supplying an approximate sound, meaning physical pain.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 疒 (illness radical) + 冬 (dōng, phonetic)
Stroke order
疼
Examples
。
My head hurts a lot.
摔跤，膝盖。
After the fall, his knee hurt badly.
牙。
A toothache is really hard to bear.
孙。
Grandma dotes on this little grandson the most.
，。
Do not worry, it will stop hurting in a few days.
疼 (téng) means to ache or hurt, describing physical pain in part of the body. It also carries a warm figurative sense of doting on or being deeply fond of someone, as a grandparent dotes on a grandchild.
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