yǐn

addiction

craving

sickness (疒) + hidden pull (隐) = addiction

疒 is the sickness radical, placed here because addiction was understood as a disease of the body and mind. 隐 contributes the sound yǐn and perhaps a faint sense of something hidden or lurking beneath the surface.

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IllnessSemantic
HiddenPhonetic

他对游戏上了,每天玩好几个小时。

tā duì yóu xì shàng le yǐn, měi tiān wán hǎo jǐ gè xiǎo shí。

he got addicted to games and plays several hours every day.

戒掉多年的烟真的很不容易。

jiè diào duō nián de yān yǐn zhēn de hěn bù róng yì。

quitting a smoking addiction of many years is truly not easy.

Words with 瘾

过干瘾

guò gān yǐn

to satisfy a craving with substitutes

过瘾

guò yǐn

to satisfy a craving

酒瘾

jiǔ yǐn

alcohol addiction

上瘾

shàng yǐn

to get into a habit

吸毒成瘾

xī dú chéng yǐn

drug addiction

性瘾

xìng yǐn

sexual addiction

成瘾

chéng yǐn

to be addicted

成瘾性

chéng yǐn xìng

addictiveness

毒瘾

dú yǐn

drug addiction

烟瘾

yān yǐn

the urge to smoke

瘾君子

yǐn jūn zǐ

opium eater

瘾头

yǐn tóu

craving

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