Skip to content

脉 mài

a pulse; arteries, veins; blood vessels

Strokes
9
Level
HSK 6
Radical
⺼
Traditional
脈
Type
Ideograph
Made of 永 ⿰⺼永

Memory hint: Long 永 vessels through one's body ⺼

✍️ Practise writing 脉 Try it here ↓

Write it yourself

Draw each stroke in the box with your mouse or finger. Wrong strokes are shown in red; after two misses the next stroke is highlighted.

Stroke 1 of 9

Example sentences with 脉

Show:

Tap any word to see its pinyin and meaning and add it to your Personal Deck. Press 🔊 to hear the sentence.

  1. 医生正在给病人量脉搏。
    Yīshēng zhèngzài gěi bìngrén liáng màibó.
    The doctor is measuring the patient's pulse.
    doctor currently to patient measure pulse
  2. 你知道这条山脉叫什么名字吗？
    Nǐ zhīdào zhè tiáo shānmài jiào shénme míngzi ma?
    Do you know what this mountain range is called?
    you know this (measure) mountain-range call what name (question)
  3. 医生，请帮我检查一下脉搏。
    Yīshēng, qǐng bāng wǒ jiǎnchá yíxià màibó.
    Doctor, please help check my pulse.
    doctor, please help me check a-bit pulse (suggestion)
  4. 他的脉搏并不正常。
    Tā de màibó bìng bú zhèngcháng.
    His pulse isn't normal at all.
    his (particle) pulse not (particle) not normal
  5. 在那座山脉的另一边，住着一个小村庄。
    Zài nà zuò shānmài de lìng yì biān, zhùzhe yí ge xiǎo cūnzhuāng.
    On the other side of that mountain range, a small village lives.
    at that (measure) mountain-range (particle) other one side, live (particle) one (measure) small village

Words with 脉 (3)