Chinese symbol for “bruising”
淤伤
yū shāng
Traditional: 淤傷
bruising
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bruising is 淤伤 (yū shāng), defined as: bruising.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “bruising”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 碰损 (碰損) | pèng sǔn | bruising (damage to soft fruit etc) |
| 瘀伤 (瘀傷) | yū shāng | to become bruised; bruising |
| 瘀斑 | yū bān | (medicine) ecchymosis; bruising |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 淤伤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淤泥 | yū ní | silt; sludge |
| 淤积 (淤積) | yū jī | to silt up; silt |
| 淤塞 | yū sè | choked with silt; silted up |
| 淤青 | yū qīng | bruise; contusion |
| 淤血 | yū xuè | variant of 瘀血 (yū xuè) |
| 清淤 | qīng yū | to dredge; to remove sludge |
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 受伤 (受傷) | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc) |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.