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感冒

gǎn mào

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 场、次

感冒 (gǎn mào) means "to catch cold". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 感冒 means

1. to catch cold
2. (common) cold
3. colloquialto be interested in (often used in the negative)
4. Taiwanto detest
5. can't stand

The characters in 感冒

• 感gǎnto feel; to move; to touch
• 冒màoto emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless

Example sentences

• 我感冒了。
  I caught the flu.
• 他感冒了。
  He caught a cold.
• 我昨天感冒了
  I caught a cold yesterday.
• 凯特感冒了。
  Kate has a cold.
• 她常常感冒。
  She caught colds often.
• 她易患感冒。
  She was susceptible to colds.

Words starting with 感冒

• 感冒药gǎn mào yàomedicine for colds

Words containing 感冒

• 流行性感冒liú xíng xìng gǎn màoinfluenza

Where 感冒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & Illness (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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