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高血压

gāo xuè yā

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 高血壓

高血压 (gāo xuè yā) means "high blood pressure; hypertension". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 高血压 means

1. high blood pressure
2. hypertension

The characters in 高血压

• 高gāohigh; tall; above average
• 血xuèblood; colloquial pr. xiě
• 压yāto press; to push down; to keep under (control)

Example sentences

• 我有高血压。
  Wǒ yǒu gāoxuèyā.
  I have high blood pressure.
• 汤姆有高血压。
  Tāngmu yǒu gāoxuèyā.
  Tom has high blood pressure.
• 他们说压力导致高血压。
  Tāmen shuō yālì dǎozhì gāoxuèyā.
  They say stress causes high blood pressure.

Words containing 高血压

• 白大衣高血压bái dà yī gāo xuè yāwhite coat hypertension; white coat syndrome

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