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Chinese symbol for “migraine”

偏头痛
piān tóu tòng
Traditional: 偏頭痛
migraine

The closest CC-CEDICT match for migraine is 偏头痛 (piān tóu tòng), defined as: migraine.

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Characters and stroke order

偏 piān
slanting, inclined; prejudiced
radical 9 ⼈ · 11 strokes
头 tóu
head; chief, boss; first, top
radical 37 ⼤ · 5 strokes
痛 tòng
ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly
radical 104 ⽧ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 偏头痛.

WordPinyinMeaning
偏见 (偏見)piān jiànprejudice; bias
偏偏piān piān(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite
偏向piān xiàngpartial towards sth; to prefer
偏离 (偏離)piān líto deviate; to diverge
偏好piān hàoto have a special liking (for sth)
偏差piān chādeviation; bias
头发 (頭髮)tóu fahair (on the head)
街头 (街頭)jiē tóustreet
痛苦tòng kǔpain; suffering

See also: Japanese symbol for “migraine”.

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.