Classica Sinica Medica

喘鳴 简体 喘鸣

chuǎn míng

Panting and wheezing · chuan ming

Also rendered: Panting and wheezing (this site; it keeps both halves, because the chapter's word has a movement and a sound in it) · Chuan ming (transliteration; how the word appears wherever this sentence is discussed)

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Reviewed · 2026-10-11

At a glance

Pinyin
chuǎn míng
Simplified
喘鸣
Literal
喘 chuǎn — to pant, breath coming short and fast (《說文》: 喘，疾息也); 鳴 míng — to sound, to call out (《說文》: 鳴，鳥聲也). 喘鳴 is breath that both races and sounds: the panting and the noise in the throat together, which is why the word is not simply 喘, a word the book uses often.
Shuowen
**「喘鳴」本篇1見，止在此句**；**「喘」讀 chuǎn，本篇1見，止在「喘鳴」一詞內**；**「鳴」讀 míng，本篇1見，止在「喘鳴」一詞內**；**《說文》：喘，疾息也；鳴，鳥聲也**；**「喘」本篇不單見：本站第六八五條「喘」之引文本篇止此一句**

In brief

What comes of the four rebels: 陰爭於内，陽擾於外，魄汗未藏，四逆而起，起則熏肺，使人喘鳴. Yin is fighting inside, yang is disturbing outside, the sweat of the corporeal soul will not stay in, and the four counterflowing qi rise. When they rise they scorch the lung, and that is what makes a person pant and wheeze. 喘 is the racing breath and 鳴 the sound it makes — the chapter’s word is the two of them, and the mechanism it gives is a fire: the lung is scorched from below by qi that has turned round and gone up.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
The graphs 喘鳴
喘者疾息，鳴者有聲；氣息急促而作聲
使人喘鳴 — Suwen 7
2
What produces it 四逆而起，起則熏肺
四逆之氣上起，熏灼於肺
起則熏肺 — Suwen 7
3
Before it comes 陰爭於内，陽擾於外
陰陽相爭，内擾外亂，然後四逆起
陰爭於内，陽擾於外 — Suwen 7
4
The sweat 魄汗未藏
魄汗不藏，津液外泄，陽因而擾
魄汗未藏 — Suwen 7
5
The two halves 喘／鳴
喘言其促，鳴言其聲，一字不可省
使人喘鳴 — Suwen 7
6
How the name is built 喘鳴
喘言其促，鳴言其聲，二字相足而成一名
使人喘鳴 — Suwen 7

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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素問·陰陽别論 Suwen 7 · 陰陽别論 Read in context →
陰爭於内，陽擾於外，魄汗未藏，四逆而起，起則熏肺，使人喘鳴。 阴争于内，阳扰于外，魄汗未藏，四逆而起，起则熏肺，使人喘鸣。
yīn zhēng yú nèi, yáng rǎo yú wài, pò hàn wèi cáng, sì nì ér qǐ, qǐ zé xūn fèi, shǐ rén chuǎn míng.
Yin contends within and yang is driven to confusion without; the sweat of the corporeal soul is not stored, and the four limbs rise into reversal. Rising, it smokes the lung and makes a person pant and wheeze.
**「喘鳴」本篇1見，止在此句**；**「陰爭於内，陽擾於外，魄汗未藏，四逆而起」是本篇論病機之最詳一處**；**「喘」本篇1見，止在「喘鳴」一詞內，本站第六八五條**；**「魄汗」之「魄」讀 pò，本篇1見；「魄汗未藏」即汗出不禁**；**本站新立此目**

Compounds built on this term

喘
chuǎn
panting
本篇1見，止在「喘鳴」一詞內，本站第六八五條
鳴
míng
a sound, a cry
本篇1見，止在「喘鳴」一詞內
魄汗
pò hàn
the sweat of the corporeal soul
本篇1見；魄汗未藏
四逆
sì nì
the four counterflowings
本篇1見；四逆而起

How it has been translated

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

This sitepanting and wheezing喘 is the racing breath and 鳴 the sound, and dropping either leaves a word the chapter did not use
Transliterationchuan minghow the word is written in discussions of this sentence; right about the referent, and it loses the sound
Descriptivenoisy laboured breathingexact about what is heard, and it is a description: the chapter names the breath and the noise and then tells you what made them

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