看 kàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 — eye
- Made of
- 手 hand 目 eye
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
看病
kànbìng
to see a doctor
Characters in this word
病 bìng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 疒 — sickness, disease
- Made of
- 疒 sickness, disease 丙 third
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 妈妈今天去医院看病。 Māma jīntiān qù yīyuàn kànbìng. Mom went to see a doctor at the hospital today.
- 下午我去看病。 Xiàwǔ wǒ qù kànbìng. I'm going to see a doctor this afternoon.
- 孩子看病了吗？ Háizi kànbìng le ma? Has the child seen a doctor?
Related words
- 好看 hǎokàn good-looking, nice
- 看 kàn to look, to watch; to read
- 看到 kàndào to see
- 看见 kànjiàn to see, to catch sight of
- 病 bìng illness; to be ill
- 病人 bìngrén patient, sick person
- 生病 shēngbìng to fall ill
- 医生 yīshēng doctor
- 医院 yīyuàn hospital
- 身体 shēntǐ body; health
- 身上 shēnshang on the body; on oneself
- 手 shǒu hand