HSK 5 · Body

受伤 shòushāng “to be injured” in Chinese

Traditional 受傷

What 受伤 means

  1. to be injured
  2. to get hurt
  3. to sustain injuries
  4. wounded (in an accident etc)
  5. harmed

How to say 受伤

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale受shòu4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale伤shāng1st tone, high and level

受伤 in a sentence

  1. 他的腿受伤了。

    Tā de tuǐ shòushāng le.

    He hurt his leg.

    Sentence #1577198 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我哥在车祸中受伤了。

    Wǒ gē zài chēhuò zhōng shòushāng le.

    My brother was injured in a car accident.

    Sentence #10002070 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 请小心不要受伤了。

    Qǐng xiǎoxīn bú yào shòushāng le.

    Please be careful not to get hurt.

    Sentence #4764649 from Tatoeba

How 受伤 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 受 (shòu) with each of its parts in a different colour
受shòuto receive
  • 爫claw form of 爪 · zhǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 又again · yòu

Memory aidOne hand 爫 passing something to another hand 又: to receive.

The character 伤 (shāng) drawn as one shape
伤shāngto injure

伤 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 受伤

受 8 strokes · 伤 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 受伤

Words with 受

受shòu · to receive接受jiēshòu · to accept受到shòudào · to receive (praise难受nánshòu · to feel unwell受不了shòubùliǎo · unbearable感受gǎnshòu · to feel承受chéngshòu · to bear享受xiǎngshòu · to enjoy遭受zāoshòu · to suffer忍受rěnshòu · to bear

Words with 伤

伤心shāngxīn · to grieve伤害shānghài · to hurt伤脑筋shāngnǎojīn · troublesome

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FAQs

受伤 (shòushāng) means “to be injured” or “to get hurt”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shòushāng: shòu with a 4th tone, then shāng 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, 受伤 is written 受傷. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shoushang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 受伤 from the suggestions. Typing shoushang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
受伤 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.