HSK 6 · Body

肿瘤 zhǒngliú “tumour” in Chinese

Traditional 腫瘤

What 肿瘤 means

  1. tumour

How to say 肿瘤

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale肿zhǒng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale瘤liú2nd tone, rising

肿瘤 in a sentence

  1. 我得了胃肿瘤，必须动手术切除。

    Wǒ dé le wèi zhǒngliú, bìxū dòng shǒushù qiēchú.

    I had a stomach tumour and needed an operation to remove it.

    Sentence #339440 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 肿瘤 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 肿 (zhǒng) with each of its parts in a different colour
肿zhǒngto swell
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 中central · zhōngSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 中 (zhōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhǒng.

The character 瘤 (liú) with each of its parts in a different colour
瘤liútumour
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 留part of the characterSound part

How to write 肿瘤

肿 8 strokes · 瘤 15 strokes

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

Words related to 肿瘤

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FAQs

肿瘤 (zhǒngliú) means “tumour”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhǒngliú: zhǒng with a 3rd tone, then liú 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, 肿瘤 is written 腫瘤. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhongliu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 肿瘤 from the suggestions. Typing zhongliu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
肿瘤 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.