脉 mài
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- ⺼ meat, flesh 永 long
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
脉搏
màibó
pulse; rhythm
Characters in this word
搏 bó
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 尃 to announce, to state
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 医生一边摸他的脉搏，一边询问他最近是否经常胸闷。 Yīshēng yìbiān mō tā de màibó, yìbiān xúnwèn tā zuìjìn shìfǒu jīngcháng xiōngmèn. The doctor felt his pulse while asking whether he had recently often felt tightness in his chest.
- 护士一边看表一边数病人的脉搏。 Hùshi yìbiān kàn biǎo yìbiān shǔ bìngrén de màibó. The nurse counted the patient's pulse while watching the clock.
- 跑完步以后，我的脉搏跳得特别快。 Pǎo wán bù yǐhòu, wǒ de màibó tiào de tèbié kuài. After my run, my pulse was racing.
Related words
- 动脉 dòngmài artery; vital route
- 来龙去脉 láilóngqùmài ins and outs; the whole story
- 脉络 màiluò sequence; context; thread
- 山脉 shānmài mountain range
- 血脉 xuèmài blood vessels; lineage
- 搏斗 bódòu to fight; to struggle
- 拼搏 pīnbó to strive; to fight hard
- 尿 niào urine; to urinate
- 麻木 mámù numb; insensitive; indifferent
- 屎 shǐ faeces; excrement
- 麻 má numb; tingling
- 聋 lóng deaf