Patient in Chinese
patient · HSK 3
病人
- 病 illness
- 人 person
Counted with 个: 一个病人
医生正在给病人看病。 The doctor is examining a patient.
Other ways to say patient
More words with 病 or 人
How do you say patient in Chinese?
Patient in Chinese is 病人 (bìng rén). You can also say 耐心 (nài xīn), 患者 (huàn zhě).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.