泻 — Chinese character
泻
xiè
to leak; diarrhea
- Pinyin
- xiè
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 写
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 写
- Traditional
- 瀉
Common words with 泻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腹泻 (腹瀉) | fù xiè | diarrhea; to have the runs |
| 倾泻 (傾瀉) | qīng xiè | to pour down in torrents |
| 泻药 (瀉藥) | xiè yào | laxative |
| 上吐下泻 (上吐下瀉) | shàng tù xià xiè | to vomit and have diarrhea |
| 泽泻 (澤瀉) | zé xiè | common water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica); water plantain rhizome (used in TCM) |
| 流泻 (流瀉) | liú xiè | to flow; to flood |
| 泄泻 (泄瀉) | xiè xiè | (TCM) to have diarrhea |
| 泄泻 (洩瀉) | xiè xiè | variant of 泄泻 (xiè xiè) |
| 泻剂 (瀉劑) | xiè jì | laxative |
| 泻盐 (瀉鹽) | xiè yán | Epsom salts |
| 奔泻 (奔瀉) | bēn xiè | (of torrents) to rush down; to pour down |
| 补泻 (補瀉) | bǔ xiè | reinforcing and reducing methods (in acupuncture) |
English words written with 泻
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.