HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Body

痛 tòng “painful” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 痛 means

  1. painful
  2. sore
  3. deeply
  4. ache
  5. pain
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • sorrow
  • thoroughly

How to say 痛

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale痛tòng4th tone, falling

痛 in a sentence

  1. 我的牙很痛。

    Wǒ de yá hěn tòng.

    My tooth really hurts.

    Sentence #344244 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 哪儿痛？

    Nǎr tòng?

    Where does it hurt?

    Sentence #13192235 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 从昨天起我的小腿就一直痛。

    Cóng zuótiān qǐ wǒ de xiǎotuǐ jiù yìzhí tòng.

    My calf has been hurting since yesterday.

    Sentence #10752792 from Tatoeba

How 痛 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 痛 (tòng) with each of its parts in a different colour
痛tòngache
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 甬path · tǒngSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 甬 (tǒng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tòng.

How to write 痛

痛 12 strokes

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

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

Words related to 痛

Words with 痛

痛苦tòngkǔ · pain痛快tòngkuài · delighted

More words: People, Body & Health

力气lìqi · strength毛máo · hair皮肤pífū · skin生命shēngmìng · life宝贝bǎobèi · baby成人chéngrén · adult宠物chǒngwù · house pet胆小鬼dǎnxiǎoguǐ · coward

FAQs

痛 (tòng) means “painful” or “sore”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it tòng: tòng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 痛 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 痛 from the suggestions. Typing tong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
痛 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older 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.