HSK 5 · Body

急诊 jízhěn “emergency treatment” in Chinese

Traditional 急診

What 急诊 means

  1. emergency treatment
  2. emergency room
  3. to give or receive urgent medical treatment
  4. emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)

How to say 急诊

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale急jí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale诊zhěn3rd tone, dipping

急诊 in a sentence

  1. 他半夜肚子疼，去医院看了急诊。

    Tā bànyè dùzi téng, qù yīyuàn kàn le jízhěn.

    He had a stomach ache in the middle of the night and went to the emergency department.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 急诊室里人很多。

    Jízhěnshì li rén hěn duō.

    The emergency room is very crowded.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 急诊 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 急 (jí) with each of its parts in a different colour
急jíurgent
  • 刍to mow · chúSound part
  • 心heart · xīnMeaning part

心 hints at the meaning (heart); 刍 (chú) hints at the sound. Compare it with jí.

The character 诊 (zhěn) with each of its parts in a different colour
诊zhěnto examine or treat medically
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 㐱part of the characterSound part

How to write 急诊

急 9 strokes · 诊 7 strokes

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

Words related to 急诊

Words with 急

急jí · anxious着急zháojí · to worry紧急jǐnjí · urgent急忙jímáng · hastily急剧jíjù · sharp焦急jiāojí · anxious急切jíqiè · eager急躁jízào · impatient急功近利jígōngjìnlì · eager for quick results and profit急于求成jíyúqiúchéng · too eager for success

Words with 诊

诊断zhěnduàn · to diagnose

More words: People, Body & Health

呼吸hūxī · to breathe肌肉jīròu · muscle肩膀jiānbǎng · shoulder精力jīnglì · energy流泪liúlèi · to shed tears眉毛méimao · eyebrow脑袋nǎodai · head内科nèikē · internal medicine

FAQs

急诊 (jízhěn) means “emergency treatment” or “emergency room”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jízhěn: jí with a 2nd tone, then zhěn with a 3rd 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, 急诊 is written 急診. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jizhen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 急诊 from the suggestions. Typing jizhen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
急诊 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.