Classica Sinica Medica

偏風 简体 偏风

piān fēng

One-sided wind · pian feng

Also rendered: One-sided wind (this site; pian feng given at the headword) · Hemilateral wind (the clinical term, where the modern reader needs one)

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Reviewed · 2026-09

At a glance

Pinyin
piān fēng
Simplified
偏风
Literal
偏風 piān fēng — wind that has taken one side. The chapter derives it from the transports: wind striking the transports of the five stores and six palaces enters each by its own gate, and where it strikes to one side, the wind is one-sided.
Shuowen
《說文解字》：偏，頗也。从人扁聲。「偏」讀 piān，**本篇2見**：**「或爲偏枯」（開篇六端之一）、「所中則爲偏風」**；**「枯」讀 kū**，**偏枯謂半身枯廢不用**——**郭靄春引滑壽說以為「偏枯當作偏風」**；**「俞」讀 shù**、**「中」讀 zhòng**。

In brief

One-sided wind is what wind becomes when it strikes a transport on one side of the body rather than settling in a store. Chapter 42 sets it beside 偏枯 (withering on one side), and one line of commentary — Slippery Shou’s, cited by Guo Aichun — holds that the opening list’s 偏枯 should in fact read 偏風.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
What the graph says 偏
頗也，不正也；偏於一側之謂
所中則爲偏風 — Suwen 42
2
How it arises 各入其門户，所中則爲偏風
風由俞入，中於一側
風中五藏六府之俞 — Suwen 42
3
What it is set beside 或爲偏枯
偏枯謂半身枯廢，與偏風相類而別
或爲偏枯 — Suwen 42
4
The commentary's doubt 偏枯當作偏風
滑壽說；此从底本，二說並存
或爲偏枯 — Suwen 42 (Guo Aichun)
5
Where the wind enters 五藏六府之俞
俞讀 shù，藏府之氣所輸
風中五藏六府之俞 — Suwen 42
6
What the wind becomes 亦爲藏府之風
中俞即為藏府之風
亦爲藏府之風 — Suwen 42

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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Suwen 42 Suwen 42 · 風論 Read in context →
風中五藏六府之俞，亦爲藏府之風，各入其門户，所中則爲偏風。 风中五脏六腑之俞，亦为脏腑之风，各入其门户，所中则为偏风。
Fēng zhòng wǔ zàng liù fǔ zhī shù, yì wéi zàng fǔ zhī fēng, gè rù qí mén hù, suǒ zhòng zé wéi piān fēng.
When wind strikes the transports of the five stores and six palaces, it becomes wind of the stores and palaces; each enters by its own gate, and where it strikes on one side it is one-sided wind.
**「風中五藏六府之俞，亦爲藏府之風」——「中」讀 zhòng**；**「各入其門户，所中則爲偏風」——「門户」——「門」讀 mén、「户」讀 hù**，**王冰「隨俞左右而偏中之，則為偏風」**；**本篇「偏」二見，「偏枯」與「偏風」各一**——**郭靄春引滑壽「偏枯當作偏風」，此从底本不改字**。

Compounds built on this term

偏風
piān fēng
one-sided wind
本篇惟此一見
偏枯
piān kū
withering on one side
第七篇已立目
五藏六府之俞
wǔ zàng liù fǔ zhī shù
the transports of the five stores and six palaces
偏風所由入
各入其門户
gè rù qí mén hù
each enters by its own gate
王冰「隨俞左右而偏中之，則為偏風」

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This siteone-sided windtranslated, with pian feng at the headword
Unschuldone-sided windthe same; he keeps 偏 as one-sided throughout
Wisemanhemilateral windthe same clinical entity under Wiseman's wind terminology

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