漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
療: heal, cure
JLPT N217 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 疒sickness(meaning)
- 尞(sound)
疒 carries the meaning · 尞 gives the sound
17 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 療法りょうほうremedy, medical treatment
- 療養中りょうようちゅうunder medical care
- 療養所りょうようじょsanatorium
- 医療いりょうmedical care, medical treatment
- 診療するしんりょうするexamine, diagnose, treat
- 治療するちりょうするtreat, cure
- 療養するりょうようするrecuperate, convalesce
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)疒 disease (meaning) + 尞 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 療 (rev. 88127604), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Sickness (疒) + light/fire variant. The process of using "fire" or "light" (energy) to "treat" a "sickness"—the essence of medical care.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尞
Also built on 尞
療 takes the 尞 family's reading, リョウ (ryou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side療 heal · 疒
vs寮 dormitory · 宀In ChineseSimplified 疗 · traditional, as in Japanese · liáo
Japan keeps the traditional form 療; mainland China simplifies it to 疗.
- Simplified
- 疗 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 療 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin liáo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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