疯子

• 拼音: fēng zi
• 汉字拆解: 疯 = 疒 (illness radical) + 风 (wind — wild as the wind, mentally unhinged); 子 = pictograph of a child (person suffix)

含义

A madman; a lunatic; someone who behaves in an extremely irrational, reckless, or obsessive way.

Literally refers to a mentally ill person, though in everyday speech it is often used informally to describe extreme recklessness or passion. In medical contexts, 精神病患者 is the respectful term. 疯子 can occasionally be used with affectionate admiration for iconoclasts or bold risk-takers.

例句

1. 他独骑自行车穿越塔克拉玛干，被众人视为疯子，却因此写出那本旅行文学。
2. 在那个年代，坚持倡导社会变革的先驱往往被保守势力斥为危险的疯子，而历史却在事后一再证明，正是这些所谓的疯子推动了时代的进步。
3. 融资失败、团队散伙后，他仍咬牙坚持，被不少人当成疯子，三年后公司上市。

用法指南

语境: everyday speech, literature, social commentary

语气: colloquial

正确说法

• 旁人眼中的疯子，有时只是走在时代前面的先行者，因环境尚未准备好接受新观念。(People others see as madmen are sometimes just pioneers ahead of their time, because society is not yet ready to accept new ideas.)
• 她为完成这部纪录片，在极地独居两年，人人都说她是疯子，但影片获奖后质疑尽消。(She lived alone in the polar region for two years to finish the documentary, and everyone called her crazy, but the doubts disappeared after the film won awards.)

错误说法

• 疯子 in a clinical or medical setting — use 精神障碍患者 or 精神病患者 to avoid stigmatising language; 疯子 is considered offensive in formal or medical discourse

起源与历史

疯 (crazy, mad) + 子 (person suffix) — a crazy person

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal