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医

yī

HSK 1 Character Traditional 醫

What 医 means

1. medical
2. medicine
3. doctor
4. to cure
5. to treat

Example sentences

• 他是医生吗
  Is he a doctor?
• 我不是医生
  Wǒ bù shì yīshēng
  I'm not a doctor.
• 她去医院了
  She went to hospital.
• 他没去医院
  He didn't go to hospital.
• 立即送医。
  Lìjí sòngyī.
  Send for a doctor at once.
• 这是医院。
  This is a hospital.

Words starting with 医

• 医院yī yuànhospital
• 医生yī shēngdoctor; medical practitioner
• 医疗yī liáomedical treatment
• 医学yī xuémedicine; medical science; study of medicine
• 医药yī yàomedical care and medicines; medicine (drug); medical
• 医师yī shīdoctor; physician
• 医护yī hùdoctors and nurses; medic; medical (personnel)
• 医务yī wùmedical affairs
• 医治yī zhìto treat (an illness); medical treatment
• 医学院yī xué yuànmedical school
• 医疗费yī liáo fèimedical expenses
• 医科yī kēmedicine (as a science); medical science
• 医术yī shùmedical expertise; art of healing
• 医务室yī wù shìinfirmary; sick bay
• 医德yī démedical ethics
• 医科大学yī kē dà xuéuniversity of medicine
• 医书yī shūmedical book
• 医嘱yī zhǔdoctor's orders
• 医保yī bǎomedical insurance; abbr. for 医疗保险
• 医官yī guānofficial in charge of medical affairs; respectful title for a doctor
• 医家yī jiāhealer; physician; medical man
• 医密yī mìpatient confidentiality (medicine)
• 医改yī gǎireform of the medical system
• 医案yī àncase history (TCM); case record

Words containing 医

• 中医zhōng yītraditional Chinese medical science; a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
• 军医jūn yīmilitary doctor
• 就医jiù yīto receive medical treatment
• 法医fǎ yīforensic pathologist; forensic doctor; medical examiner
• 兽医shòu yīveterinarian; veterinary surgeon; vet
• 看医生kàn yī shēngto visit a doctor
• 牙医yá yīdentist
• 西医xī yīWestern medicine; a doctor trained in Western medicine
• 名医míng yīfamous doctor
• 行医xíng yīto practice medicine (esp. in private practice)
• 学医xué yīto study medicine
• 求医qiú yīto seek medical treatment; to see a doctor
• 中西医zhōng xī yīChinese and Western medicine; a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
• 主治医师zhǔ zhì yī shīattending physician
• 太医tài yīimperial physician
• 临床医学lín chuáng yī xuéclinical medicine
• 从医cóng yīto work as a doctor
• 中医学Zhōng yī xuétraditional Chinese medicine; TCM
• 总医院zǒng yī yuàngeneral hospital
• 国医guó yītraditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
• 留医liú yīto be hospitalized
• 送医sòng yīto take sb to the hospital
• 核医学hé yī xuénuclear medicine
• 法医学fǎ yī xuéforensic medicine

Characters built on 矢

These share the phonetic component 矢 (shǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 知zhīto know; to be aware
• 疾jí(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 疑yí(bound form) to doubt; to suspect
• 矣yǐclassical final particle, similar to modern 了
• 雉zhìringed pheasant
• 肄yìto learn; to practice or study (old)
• 彘zhìswine

Characters that look like 医

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 园yuánland used for growing plants; site used for public recreation…
• 丽lìbeautiful
• 匠jiàngcraftsman
• 匡kuāng(literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (colloquial) to calculate roughly…
• 甾zāisteroid nucleus

Sounds the same

Read yī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 一one; single; a (article)
• 衣clothes; Kangxi radical 145
• 依to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to
• 伊(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she")…
• 壹one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 漪ripple
• 揖to greet by raising clasped hands
• 噫yeah (interjection of approval); to belch
• 咿(onomatopoeia) to squeak
• 铱iridium (chemistry)
• 瑿a black stone like jade; jet
• 祎excellent; precious; rare