HSK 6 · Body

瘫痪 tānhuàn “paralysed” in Chinese

Traditional 癱瘓

What 瘫痪 means

  1. paralysed
  2. paralysis
  3. to be brought to a standstill
  4. (medicine) to suffer paralysis
  5. (fig.) to be paralyzed
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to break down
  • to come to a standstill

How to say 瘫痪

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale瘫tān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale痪huàn4th tone, falling

瘫痪 in a sentence

  1. 他的瘫痪正在恶化，不久他就不能下床了。

    Tā de tānhuàn zhèngzài èhuà, bùjiǔ tā jiù bù néng xià chuáng le.

    His paralysis is getting worse, and soon he won’t be able to get out of bed.

    Sentence #5574829 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 瘫痪 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 瘫 (tān) with each of its parts in a different colour
瘫tānparalyzed
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 难hard · nánSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 难 (nán) hints at the sound. Compare it with tān.

The character 痪 (huàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
痪huàn
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 奂numerous · huànSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 奂 (huàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with huàn.

How to write 瘫痪

瘫 15 strokes · 痪 12 strokes

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

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FAQs

瘫痪 (tānhuàn) means “paralysed” or “paralysis”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tānhuàn: tān with a 1st tone, then huàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 瘫痪 is written 癱瘓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tanhuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 瘫痪 from the suggestions. Typing tanhuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
瘫痪 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.