HSK 6 · Body

血压 xuèyā “blood pressure” in Chinese

Traditional 血壓

What 血压 means

  1. blood pressure

How to say 血压

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale血xuè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale压yā1st tone, high and level

血压 in a sentence

  1. 我的血压很低。

    Wǒ de xuèyā hěn dī.

    My blood pressure is low.

    Sentence #399949 from Tatoeba

  2. 我需要检查一下你的血压。

    Wǒ xūyào jiǎnchá yíxià nǐ de xuèyā.

    I need to check your blood pressure.

    Sentence #13583611 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 我有高血压。

    Wǒ yǒu gāo xuèyā.

    I have high blood pressure.

    Sentence #815684 from Tatoeba

How 血压 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 血 (xuè) with each of its parts in a different colour
血xuèblood
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 皿dish · mǐn
The character 压 (yā) with each of its parts in a different colour
压yāto press
  • 厂cliff · hǎn
  • 土earth · tǔ
  • 丶dot · zhǔ

How to write 血压

血 6 strokes · 压 6 strokes

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

Words related to 血压

Words with 血

血xuè · blood心血xīnxuè · painstaking effort

Words with 压

压力yālì · pressure压缩yāsuō · to compress压榨yāzhà · to squeeze压制yāzhì · to suppress压抑yāyì · to suppress (emotions)压迫yāpò · to oppress气压qìyā · air pressure压岁钱yāsuìqián · money given to children at Chinese New Year

More words: People, Body & Health

新陈代谢xīnchéndàixiè · metabolism性命xìngmìng · life (of a person or animal)胸膛xiōngtáng · chest嗅觉xiùjué · sense of smell眼色yǎnsè · meaningful look眼神yǎnshén · look in one’s eyes遗传yíchuán · genetic眨zhǎ · to blink

FAQs

血压 (xuèyā) means “blood pressure”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xuèyā: xuè with a 4th tone, then yā 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, 血压 is written 血壓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xueya with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 血压 from the suggestions. Typing xueya into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
血压 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.