Chinese symbol for “hurt”
灼伤
zhuó shāng
Traditional: 灼傷
a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc); to burn (the skin etc); (fig.) (of anger, jealousy etc) to hurt (sb)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hurt is 灼伤 (zhuó shāng), defined as: a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc); to burn (the skin etc); (fig.) (of anger, jealousy etc) to hurt (sb).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hurt”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疼痛 | téng tòng | pain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt |
| 硌 | gè | (coll.) (of sth hard or rough) to press against some part of one's body causing discomfort (like a small stone in one's shoe); to hurt |
| 弄伤 (弄傷) | nòng shāng | to bruise; to hurt (something) |
| 少块肉 (少塊肉) | shǎo kuài ròu | (coll.) (usually used in the negative) (can't) hurt (to do sth); (won't) hurt (to do sth) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 灼伤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灼热 (灼熱) | zhuó rè | burning hot; scorching |
| 真知灼见 (真知灼見) | zhēn zhī zhuó jiàn | penetrating insight |
| 灼烧 (灼燒) | zhuó shāo | to burn; to scorch |
| 焦灼 | jiāo zhuó | (literary) deeply worried |
| 烧灼 (燒灼) | shāo zhuó | to burn; to scorch |
| 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 “hurt”.
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.