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怀孕 huáiyùn “to be pregnant” in Chinese

Traditional 懷孕

What 怀孕 means

  1. to be pregnant
  2. pregnant
  3. to have conceived
  4. gestation
  5. pregnancy

How to say 怀孕

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale怀huái2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale孕yùn4th tone, falling

怀孕 in a sentence

  1. 她怀孕了。

    Tā huáiyùn le.

    She’s pregnant.

    Sentence #10502293 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 你怀孕几个月了？

    Nǐ huáiyùn jǐ ge yuè le?

    How many months pregnant are you?

    Sentence #2007114 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她怀孕后仍然坚持工作。

    Tā huáiyùn hòu réngrán jiānchí gōngzuò.

    She kept working even after she became pregnant.

    Sentence #6020626 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 怀孕 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 怀 (huái) with each of its parts in a different colour
怀huáibosom
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīnMeaning part
  • 不no · bùSound part

忄 hints at the meaning (heart); 不 (bù) hints at the sound. Compare it with huái.

The character 孕 (yùn) with each of its parts in a different colour
孕yùnpregnant
  • 乃then · nǎi
  • 子child · zǐ

How to write 怀孕

怀 7 strokes · 孕 5 strokes

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

Words related to 怀孕

Words with 怀

怀疑huáiyí · to doubt怀念huáiniàn · to cherish the memory of关怀guānhuái · to care for胸怀xiōnghuái · breadth of mind

Words with 孕

孕育yùnyù · to nurture

More words: People, Body & Health

骨头gǔtou · bone挂号guàhào · to register (at a hospital)过敏guòmǐn · allergic后背hòubèi · back (of the body)呼吸hūxī · to breathe肌肉jīròu · muscle肩膀jiānbǎng · shoulder精力jīnglì · energy

FAQs

怀孕 (huáiyùn) means “to be pregnant” or “pregnant”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huáiyùn: huái with a 2nd tone, then yùn with a 4th 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, 怀孕 is written 懷孕. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huaiyun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 怀孕 from the suggestions. Typing huaiyun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
怀孕 is an HSK 5 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.