HSK 5 · Body

内科 nèikē “internal medicine” in Chinese

Traditional 內科

What 内科 means

  1. internal medicine
  2. general medicine

How to say 内科

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale内nèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale科kē1st tone, high and level

内科 in a sentence

  1. 他看到了一位内科医师。

    Tā kàndào le yí wèi nèikē yīshī.

    He saw an internal medicine doctor.

    Sentence #6149799 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 内科 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 内 (nèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
内nèiinside
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 人person · rén
The character 科 (kē) with each of its parts in a different colour
科kēbranch of study
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 斗dipper · dǒu

How to write 内科

内 4 strokes · 科 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 内科

Words with 内

内nèi · inside内容nèiróng · content内部nèibù · inside内在nèizài · inner内幕nèimù · inside story内涵nèihán · connotation

Words with 科

科学kēxué · science本科běnkē · undergraduate course科目kēmù · (school) subject

More words: People, Body & Health

急诊jízhěn · emergency treatment流泪liúlèi · to shed tears眉毛méimao · eyebrow脑袋nǎodai · head疲劳píláo · tired嗓子sǎngzi · throat身材shēncái · stature失眠shīmián · to suffer from insomnia

FAQs

内科 (nèikē) means “internal medicine” or “general medicine”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it nèikē: nèi with a 4th tone, then kē with a 1st 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, 内科 is written 內科. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type neike with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 内科 from the suggestions. Typing neike into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
内科 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.