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轮椅

lún yǐ

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 輪椅

轮椅 (lún yǐ) means "wheelchair". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 轮椅 means

1. wheelchair

The characters in 轮椅

• 轮lúnwheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate
• 椅yǐchair

Example sentences

• 走廊要够轮椅宽。
  The hallway needs to be wide enough for a wheelchair.
• 走廊要宽得能容下轮椅。
  Zǒuláng yào kuān de néng róngxià lúnyǐ.
  The hallway needs to be wide enough for a wheelchair.
• 这栋建筑尚未符合法规，因为还缺少轮椅坡道。
  The building isn't yet up to code because it still needs a wheelchair ramp.
• 最后，他的病夺去了他走路的能力，想去哪儿也要用电动轮椅来代步。
  Zuì hòu, tā de bìng duó qù le tā zǒulù de nénglì, xiǎng qù nǎr yě yào yòng diàndòng lúnyǐ lái dàibù.
  In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.

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