癞
scabies; skin disease
Closest English meanings
leprosy·mangy
The Calligrapher — Yán Zhēnqīng 颜真卿
Tang master of robust regular script; co-creator of the enduring 'Yan style'.
Tang calligrapher (709–784), master of regular script/running script — the Tang moral paragon whose upright, muscular regular script became the model of Chinese integrity in writing. Tang dynasty
Cultural Story
Vernacular speech split 癞 between pity and comedy: the mangy dog by the wall, and the immortal folk figure 癞蛤蟆, the toad that — every child learns — dreams of eating swan meat. Folk medicine even prescribed dried toad-skin plasters for stubborn sores, trusting one scabby creature to cure another.
Common words & phrases
- 癞蛤蟆 toad
- 癞子 scabby head · mangy person
Read the story behind the character
Kids chase 癞蛤蟆 (toads) after the rain and chant the swan-meat proverb at teasing friends. Old nicknames like 癞子 (scabby head) survive mostly in rural memory, while dermatology quietly retired the insult — what grandma called 癞 is just tinea now, cleared with one tube of cream.
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