TSUMUGU · TOCFL B1 (est.) · 字
癌
癌 ＝ 疒 ＋ 嵒
ㄞˊ · ái
noun — cancer; a malignant growth
字源 FORM — what the parts do
疒義sickness — the sick-bed radical
嵒聲yán — gives the soundthree mouths (品) piled on a mountain (山) — a heap of rock
ITyán → ái — the sound shifted, tone with it
The sickness radical (疒) over 嵒 yán, a mountain stacked with rock (品 over 山). The hard rocky heap names a growth that turns to stone inside the body. 嵒 carries the sound, worn from yán to ái.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
病床（疒）上的人，體內結出一堆硬如山石（嵒）的東西。
On the sick-bed (疒), a heap of rock (嵒) hardens inside the body.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)癌症— cancer常用
→胃癌、肺癌— carcinoma of an organ
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
岩yánthe lookalike without the sickness — 岩 is plain mountain-rock, 癌 wraps it in 嵒yánthe bare rocky-heap inside — 癌 adds the sick-bed over it