(tòng) - to ache, pain, painful, deeply in Mandarin
tòngTraditional: 痛
Translation
to ache, pain, painful, deeply
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound combining the sickness radical 疒 (chuáng, illness) with 甬 (yǒng) as the phonetic element, the radical marking it as a bodily affliction.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 疒 (chuáng, illness) + 甬 (yǒng, phonetic)
Stroke order
痛
Examples
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My head hurts a lot.
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Her wound still aches.
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Losing his friend caused him great pain.
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He resolved firmly to change himself.
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After running all day, my legs ached all over.
痛 (tòng) means to ache or hurt, and as a noun refers to pain, whether physical or emotional. It also works adverbially to mean acutely or thoroughly, as in 痛快 (with great satisfaction).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 痛.
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