Chinese symbol for “crick”

扭伤

niǔ shāng

Traditional: 扭傷

a sprain; a crick; to sprain

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crick is 扭伤 (niǔ shāng), defined as: a sprain; a crick; to sprain.

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Characters and stroke order

扭 niǔ

to turn, to twist, to wrench; to grasp, to seize

radical 64 ⼿ · 7 strokes

伤 shāng

to injure, to harm; wound, injury; to fall ill

radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

傷 shāng

Related words

Other words that share a character with 扭伤.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
扭曲	niǔ qū	to twist; to warp
扭转 (扭轉)	niǔ zhuǎn	to reverse; to turn around (an undesirable situation)
别扭 (彆扭)	biè niu	awkward; difficult
扭头 (扭頭)	niǔ tóu	to turn one's head; to turn around
扭矩	niǔ jǔ	torque; turning force
伤害 (傷害)	shāng hài	to injure; to harm
受伤 (受傷)	shòu shāng	to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc)
伤心 (傷心)	shāng xīn	to grieve; to be broken-hearted

See also: Japanese symbol for “crick”.

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.