Chinese symbol for “stasis”
瘀滞
yū zhì
Traditional: 瘀滯
(in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stasis is 瘀滞 (yū zhì), defined as: (in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 瘀滞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瘀伤 (瘀傷) | yū shāng | to become bruised; bruising |
| 瘀血 | yū xuè | clotted blood; extravasated blood (leaking into surrounding tissue) |
| 瘀斑 | yū bān | (medicine) ecchymosis; bruising |
| 祛瘀 | qū yū | to dispel blood stasis (TCM) |
| 瘀青 | yū qīng | bruise; contusion |
| 停滞 (停滯) | tíng zhì | stagnation; at a standstill |
| 滞留 (滯留) | zhì liú | (of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded; (of sth that would typically dissipate |
| 滞后 (滯後) | zhì hòu | to lag behind |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stasis”.
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.