HSK 6 · Body

脉搏 màibó “pulse” in Chinese

Traditional 脈搏

What 脉搏 means

  1. pulse
  2. pulse (both medical and figurative)

How to say 脉搏

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale脉mài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale搏bó2nd tone, rising

脉搏 in a sentence

  1. 我的脉搏很快。

    Wǒ de màibó hěn kuài.

    My pulse is fast.

    Sentence #8725289 from Tatoeba

  2. 医生正在量病人的脉搏。

    Yīshēng zhèngzài liáng bìngrén de màibó.

    The doctor is taking the patient’s pulse.

    Sentence #3890959 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 医生认为病人的脉搏有点快。

    Yīshēng rènwéi bìngrén de màibó yǒudiǎn kuài.

    The doctor thought the patient’s pulse was a little fast.

    Sentence #6822730 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 脉搏 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 脉 (mài) with each of its parts in a different colour
脉màiarteries and veins
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
  • 永long · yǒng
The character 搏 (bó) with each of its parts in a different colour
搏bóto fight
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 尃to announce · fūSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 尃 (fū) hints at the sound. Compare it with bó.

How to write 脉搏

脉 9 strokes · 搏 13 strokes

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

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

Words related to 脉搏

Words with 脉

山脉shānmài · mountain range动脉dòngmài · artery

Words with 搏

搏斗bódòu · to fight拼搏pīnbó · to struggle hard

More words: People, Body & Health

口腔kǒuqiāng · oral cavity临床línchuáng · clinical聋哑lóngyǎ · deaf and mute麻痹mábì · paralysis麻木mámù · numb慢性mànxìng · chronic (illness)麻醉mázuì · anaesthesia免疫miǎnyì · immunity

FAQs

脉搏 (màibó) means “pulse” or “pulse (both medical and figurative)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it màibó: mài with a 4th tone, then bó 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, 脉搏 is written 脈搏. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type maibo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 脉搏 from the suggestions. Typing maibo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
脉搏 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.