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脈

mài

blood vessels, veins, arteries

Strokes
10
Radical
肉
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 脉

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 脉, the simplified form of 脈. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 医生给我把脉。

    Yī shēng gěi wǒ bǎ mài

    The doctor felt my pulse.

  • 我的脉搏很快。

    Wǒ de mài bó hěn kuài

    My pulse is fast.

  • 医生正在量病人的脉搏。

    Yī shēng zhèng zài liáng bìng rén de mài bó

    The doctor is taking the patient's pulse.

  • 医生认为病人的脉搏有点快。

    Yī shēng rèn wéi bìng rén de mài bó yǒu diǎn kuài

    The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 脉

  • 动脉dòng mài 4–4 artery
  • 脉搏mài bó 4–2 pulse (both medical and figurative)
  • 山脉shān mài 1–4 mountain range
  • 血脉xuè mài 4–4 blood vessels
  • 来龙去脉lái lóng qù mài 2–2–4–4the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); (fig.) the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
  • 脉络mài luò 4–4 arteries and veins; network of blood vessels; vascular system (of a plant or animal); (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric"); overall context