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医生

yī shēng

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 醫生

医生 (yī shēng) means "doctor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 医生 means

1. doctor; medical practitioner

The characters in 医生

• 医yīmedical; medicine; doctor
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

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.
• 她是医生。
  She is a doctor.
• 他是医生。
  He is a doctor.
• 我是医生。
  I'm a doctor.
• 我想看医生。
  I'd like to see a doctor.

Words containing 医生

• 看医生kàn yī shēngto visit a doctor
• 内科医生nèi kē yī shēngmedical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to…
• 全科医生quán kē yī shēnggeneral practitioner
• 外科医生wài kē yī shēngsurgeon; as opposed to physician 内科医生
• 牙科医生yá kē yī shēngdentist
• 无国界医生Wú guó jiè Yī shēngMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity); Doctors Without Borders
• 精神科医生jīng shén kē yī shēngpsychiatrist
• 整形外科医生zhěng xíng wài kē yī shēngplastic surgeon
• 见习医生jiàn xí yī shēngmedical intern
• 眼科医生yǎn kē yī shēngophthalmologist; eye doctor
• 江湖医生jiāng hú yī shēngunlicensed doctor; quack; back-alley or itinerant practitioner
• 乡村医生xiāng cūn yī shēngvillage doctor (Chinese health care system)
• 赤脚医生chì jiǎo yī shēngbarefoot doctor; farmer with paramedical training (PRC)
• 矫形医生jiǎo xíng yī shēngorthopedic doctor

Sounds the same

Read yī shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 一生all one's life; throughout one's life
• 一声first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)

Where 医生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School, Work and Study (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yī shēng correctly.
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