Memory phrase for the character: 痰

痰

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Meaning phlegm, spittle

Pronunciation

tán

Explanation

Left: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), right: flame, inflammation (of a disease) 炎

Mnemonic
 
The disease in respect to (the missing inner) flame is: a phlegm.

Radicals

疒 sicknessSimilar radicals are building 广 or cliff 厂.
炎 flame, inflammation
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 Vocabulary

祛痰 qū tán  to dispel phlegm (general term of traditional Chinese medicine)
祛痰药 qū tán yào  medicine to dispel phlegm (in traditional Chinese medicine)
黏痰 nián tán  phlegm
黏痰 nián tán  

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