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肿瘤

zhǒng liú

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

肿瘤 (zhǒng liú) means "tumor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 肿瘤 means

1. tumor

The characters in 肿瘤

• 肿zhǒngto swell; swelling; swollen
• 瘤liútumor

Example sentences

• 我有脑肿瘤。
  I have a brain tumor.
• 我得了胃肿瘤，必须动手术切除。
  Wǒ déle wèi zhǒngliú, bìxū dòngshǒu shù qiēchú.
  I got a stomach tumor and had to have it operated on.

Words starting with 肿瘤

• 肿瘤学zhǒng liú xuéoncology
• 肿瘤科zhǒng liú kēoncology
• 肿瘤切除术zhǒng liú qiè chú shùlumpectomy

Words containing 肿瘤

• 脑肿瘤nǎo zhǒng liúbrain tumor
• 恶性肿瘤è xìng zhǒng liúmalignant tumor
• 良性肿瘤liáng xìng zhǒng liúbenign tumor
• 国际肿瘤研究机构Guó jì Zhǒng liú Yán jiū Jī gòuInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Where 肿瘤 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chóng–zhōu (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 zhǒng liú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.