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
• 医疗/醫療yī (first tone, high and level) liáo (second tone, rising)medical treatment
• 医学/醫學yī (first tone, high and level) xué (second tone, rising)medicine
• 医药/醫藥yī (first tone, high and level) yào (fourth tone, falling)medical care and medicines
• 医务/醫務yī (first tone, high and level) wù (fourth tone, falling)medical affairs
• 中医/中醫Zhōng (first tone, high and level) yī (first tone, high and level)traditional Chinese medical science
• 就医/就醫jiù (fourth tone, falling) yī (first tone, high and level)to receive medical treatment
• 西医/西醫xī (first tone, high and level) yī (first tone, high and level)Western medicine
• 求医/求醫qiú (second tone, rising) yī (first tone, high and level)to seek medical treatment

Words containing 生

• 生活shēng (first tone, high and level) huó (second tone, rising)life
• 生shēng (first tone, high and level)to be born
• 学生/學生xuésheng (second tone, rising)student, pupil
• 产生/產生chǎnshēng (third tone, dipping)to produce, to give rise to, to arise
• 生命shēng (first tone, high and level) mìng (fourth tone, falling)life
• 先生xiānsheng (first tone, high and level)Mr, sir
• 发生/發生fāshēng (first tone, high and level)to happen, to occur
• 人生rén (second tone, rising) shēng (first tone, high and level)life (one's time on earth)
• 一生yī (first tone, high and level) shēng (first tone, high and level)all one's life; throughout one's life
• 生日shēngrì (first tone, high and level)birthday
• 女生nǚ (third tone, dipping) shēng (first tone, high and level)schoolgirl
• 生气/生氣shēngqì (first tone, high and level)to get angry, to be cross
• 出生chū (first tone, high and level) shēng (first tone, high and level)to be born
• 生物shēng (first tone, high and level) wù (fourth tone, falling)organism
• 生产/生產shēng (first tone, high and level) chǎn (third tone, dipping)childbirth
• 生病shēngbìng (first tone, high and level)to fall ill, to be sick
• 生存shēng (first tone, high and level) cún (second tone, rising)to exist