tān

paralyzed

sickness (疒) + difficult (难) = paralyzed

疒 is the sickness radical, depicting a person lying ill on a bed — it anchors the medical meaning here. 难 mainly contributes the sound tān (via nán); the body rendered immovable by disease does the rest.

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他出事后双腿了,只能坐轮椅。

tā chū shì hòu shuāng tuǐ tān le, zhǐ néng zuò lún yǐ.

after his accident, both his legs were paralyzed and he could only use a wheelchair.

老人中风以后,身体左侧全了。

lǎo rén zhòng fēng yǐ hòu, shēn tǐ zuǒ cè quán tān le.

after the elderly person had a stroke, the entire left side of their body was paralyzed.

Words with 瘫

陷于瘫痪

xiàn yú tān huàn

to be paralyzed; to come to a standstill

风瘫

fēng tān

to be paralyzed

偏瘫

piān tān

paralysis of one side of the body; hemiplegia

北京瘫

běi jīng tān

"Beijing slouch", sitting posture said to be adopted esp. by Beijingers, popularized by 葛優|葛优[Ge3 You1]

截瘫

jié tān

paraplegia

疯瘫

fēng tān

variant of 風癱|风瘫[feng1 tan1]

瘫子

tān zi

paralyzed person

瘫痪

tān huàn

(medicine) to suffer paralysis

瘫软

tān ruǎn

limp

脑瘫

nǎo tān

cerebral palsy

面瘫

miàn tān

facial nerve paralysis

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