HSK 6 · Body

临床 línchuáng “clinical” in Chinese

Traditional 臨床

What 临床 means

  1. clinical
  2. (medicine) clinical

How to say 临床

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale临lín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale床chuáng2nd tone, rising

临床 in a sentence

  1. 不是所有的临床研究都是假设驱动的。

    Bú shì suǒyǒu de línchuáng yánjiū dōu shì jiǎshè qūdòng de.

    Not all clinical studies are hypothesis-driven.

    Sentence #8563446 from Tatoeba

How 临床 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 临 (lín) drawn as one shape
临línto face

临 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 床 (chuáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
床chuángbed; couch 张)
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidPicture wood 木 under a shelter 广: a bed.

How to write 临床

临 9 strokes · 床 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

临床 (línchuáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 临床 (línchuáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 临床

Words with 临

光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence面临miànlín · to face临时línshí · temporary濒临bīnlín · to be on the verge of降临jiànglín · to arrive

Words with 床

床chuáng · bed起床qǐchuáng · to get up床单chuángdān · bed sheet

More words: People, Body & Health

疾病jíbìng · disease解剖jiěpōu · to dissect颈椎jǐngzhuī · cervical vertebra口腔kǒuqiāng · oral cavity聋哑lóngyǎ · deaf and mute麻痹mábì · paralysis脉搏màibó · pulse麻木mámù · numb

FAQs

临床 (línchuáng) means “clinical” or “(medicine) clinical”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it línchuáng: lín with a 2nd tone, then chuáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 临床 is written 臨床. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type linchuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 临床 from the suggestions. Typing linchuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
临床 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.