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患者

huàn zhě

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

患者 (huàn zhě) means "patient; sufferer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 患者 means

1. patient; sufferer

The characters in 患者

• 患huànto suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 者zhě(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er

Example sentences

• 汤姆是糖尿病患者。
  Tāng mǔ shì tángnìbìnghuànzhě.
  Tom is diabetic.
• 汤姆是恋童癖患者。
  Tom is a pedophile.
• 这些患者走路有困难。
  Zhèxiē huànzhě zǒulù yǒu kùnnan.
  These patients have trouble walking.
• 等候室里有五位患者。
  There are five patients in the waiting room.
• 患者现在处于深度昏迷状态。
  Huànzhě xiànzài chǔyú shēndù hūnmí zhuàngtài.
  The patient is in a state of profound stupor.
• 医生现在正在给那位患者就诊。
  Yīshēng xiànzài zhèngzài gěi nà wèi huànzhě jiùzhěn.
  The doctor is seeing that patient.

Where 患者 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · huā–Hù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huàn zhě correctly.
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