Chinese symbol for “trauma”
创伤
chuāng shāng
Traditional: 創傷
wound; injury; trauma
The closest CC-CEDICT match for trauma is 创伤 (chuāng shāng), defined as: wound; injury; trauma.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “trauma”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 创伤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 创新 (創新) | chuàng xīn | to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation |
| 创造 (創造) | chuàng zào | to create; to bring about |
| 创作 (創作) | chuàng zuò | to create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation |
| 创建 (創建) | chuàng jiàn | to found; to establish |
| 创业 (創業) | chuàng yè | to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise; entrepreneurship |
| 创立 (創立) | chuàng lì | to establish; to set up; to found |
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 受伤 (受傷) | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “trauma”.
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.