医生/醫生 yīshēng — doctor, physician

Meanings

1. 1

   doctor, physician

   A medical doctor. Like 老师, it doubles as a form of address, alone or after a surname (王医生), and 看医生 means to see a doctor.

   noun

Character breakdown

• 医/醫

  yī (first tone, high and level)

  medicine, the healing art; to treat, to cure; a doctor

  7 strokes⿷匚矢Radical 匚
• 生

  shēng (first tone, high and level)

  to be born; to grow; to give birth to; life; raw, uncooked; unfamiliar, strange

  5 strokesRadical 生

Example sentences

• 我爸爸是医生。/我爸爸是醫生。Wǒ (third tone, dipping) bàba (fourth tone, falling) shì (fourth tone, falling) yīshēng. (first tone, high and level)···

  My dad is a doctor.

• 医院里有很多医生。/醫院裡有很多醫生。Yīyuàn (first tone, high and level) lǐ (third tone, dipping) yǒu (third tone, dipping) hěn (third tone, dipping) duō (first tone, high and level) yīshēng. (first tone, high and level)···

  There are a lot of doctors in the hospital.

Similar words

Words containing 医

• 医院/醫院yīyuàn (first tone, high and level)hospital

Words containing 生

• 学生/學生xuésheng (second tone, rising)student, pupil
• 先生xiānsheng (first tone, high and level)Mr, sir
• 发生/發生fāshēng (first tone, high and level)to happen, to occur
• 生日shēngrì (first tone, high and level)birthday
• 生气/生氣shēngqì (first tone, high and level)to get angry, to be cross
• 生病shēngbìng (first tone, high and level)to fall ill, to be sick