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瘫痪

tān huàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 癱瘓

瘫痪 (tān huàn) means "paralysis; be paralyzed (body, transportation, etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 瘫痪 means

1. medicineto suffer paralysis
2. (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down; to come to a standstill

The characters in 瘫痪

• 瘫tānparalyzed
• 痪huànused in 瘫痪

Example sentences

• 全面罢工瘫痪了整个国家。
  Quánmiàn bàgōng tānhuàn le zhěnggè guójiā.
  The general strike paralyzed the whole country.
• 他的瘫痪正在恶化，不久他就不能下床了。
  Tā de tānhuàn zhèngzài èhuà, bù jiǔ tā jiù bù néng xià chuáng le.
  His paralysis is progressing, and soon he won't be able to get out of bed.
• 在你面前有一百万美金。你可以自己留下或帮一个你不认识的快全身瘫痪的人做手术。他不认识你，你也不认识他。当然，无论你慷慨地把所有的钱都捐给了一个素不相识的人去做手术，还是卑鄙地拿走这笔钱，让那个人今生都只能卧床不起，都不会有人知道。你会怎幺做呢？这笔钱不可割分。
  You've got a million dollars in front of you. You can either spend it for yourself or spend it on a surgery for someone you don't know who is in danger of quadriplegia. You don't know each other. And no one will ever know what a noble deed you've done sacrificing all the money for the surgery for a person you don't know, or how mean you were to take the money confining that person to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. So what would you do? You can't share the money.

Words containing 瘫痪

• 陷于瘫痪xiàn yú tān huànto be paralyzed; to come to a standstill

Where 瘫痪 is taught

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

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