痈
yōng

carbuncle

痈 癰 yōng
carbuncle
A severe skin infection involving a cluster of boils, typically characterized by redness, swelling, and multiple pus-filled openings; often caused by bacteria like staphylococcus.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
4,950th most common 0.987 per million
Word
Written text
1.29 per million

Details
Traditional
癰
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+75C8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)