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脉搏

mài bó

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

脉搏 (mài bó) means "pulse (both medical and figurative)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 脉搏 means

1. pulse (both medical and figurative)

The characters in 脉搏

• 脉màiarteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
• 搏bóto fight; to combat; to seize

Example sentences

• 我的脉搏很快。
  My pulse is fast.
• 他的脉搏正常吗？
  Tā de màibó zhèngcháng ma?
  Is his pulse regular?
• 检查汤姆的脉搏。
  Check Tom's pulse.
• 医生正在量病人的脉搏。
  Yīshēng zhèngzài liáng bìngrén de màibó.
  The doctor is taking the patient's pulse.
• 再检查一下汤姆的脉搏。
  Check Tom's pulse again.
• 医生认为病人的脉搏有点快。
  Yīshēng rènwéi bìngrén de màibó yǒudiǎn kuài.
  The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.

Where 脉搏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · má (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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