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患上

huàn shang

2-character word

What 患上 means

1. to come down with; to be afflicted with (an illness)

The characters in 患上

• 患huànto suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…

Example sentences

• 我患上了重感冒。
  I am suffering from a bad cold.
• 我患上了严重的感冒。
  I am suffering from a bad cold.
• 吸烟的人患上肺癌的风险比不吸烟的人高得多。
  Xīyān de rén huàn shàng fèi'ái de fēngxiǎn bǐ bù xīyān de rén gāo de duō.
  Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers are.