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肺炎

fèi yán

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

肺炎 (fèi yán) means "pneumonia; inflammation of the lungs". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 肺炎 means

1. pneumonia
2. inflammation of the lungs

The characters in 肺炎

• 肺fèilung
• 炎yánflame; inflammation; -itis

Example sentences

• 他得了肺炎，难怪他在不停的咳嗽。
  Tā déle fèiyán, nánguài tā zài bù tíng de késou.
  He's got pneumonia. No wonder he is coughing nonstop.

Words starting with 肺炎

• 肺炎双球菌fèi yán shuāng qiú jūnDiplococcus pneumoniae
• 肺炎霉浆菌fèi yán méi jiāng jūnMycoplasma pneumoniae
• 肺炎克雷伯氏菌fèi yán Kè léi bó shì jūnKlebsiella pnenmoniae

Words containing 肺炎

• 新冠肺炎xīn guān fèi yánCOVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019
• 大叶性肺炎dà yè xìng fèi yánlobar pneumonia
• 支原体肺炎zhī yuán tǐ fèi yánMycoplasma pneumonia
• 非典型肺炎fēi diǎn xíng fèi yánatypical pneumonia; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; SARS
• 霉浆菌肺炎méi jiāng jūn fèi yánmycoplasma pneumonia

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