HSK 6 · Body

疙瘩 gēda “pimple” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 疙瘩 means

  1. pimple
  2. lump
  3. knot (of a problem)
  4. swelling or lump on skin
  5. knot
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • preoccupation
  • problem

How to say 疙瘩

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale疙gē1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own瘩daneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

疙瘩 in a sentence

  1. 他的鼻子上长了一个小疙瘩。

    Tā de bízi shàng zhǎng le yí ge xiǎo gēda.

    He’s got a small pimple on his nose.

    Sentence #3479877 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 疙瘩 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 疙 (gē) with each of its parts in a different colour
疙gē
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 乞to beg · qǐSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 乞 (qǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with gē.

The character 瘩 (da) with each of its parts in a different colour
瘩dasore
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 荅to answer · dāSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 荅 (dā) hints at the sound. Compare it with da.

How to write 疙瘩

疙 8 strokes · 瘩 14 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

疙瘩 (gēda) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 疙瘩 (gēda). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 疙瘩

More words: People, Body & Health

肺fèi · lung分泌fēnmì · to secrete腹泻fùxiè · diarrhoea感染gǎnrǎn · to infect喉咙hóulóng · throat患者huànzhě · patient化验huàyàn · laboratory test昏迷hūnmí · to fall unconscious

FAQs

疙瘩 (gēda) means “pimple” or “lump”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gēda: gē with a 1st tone, then da with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 疙瘩 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type geda with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 疙瘩 from the suggestions. Typing geda into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
疙瘩 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.