患
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to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 心 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 患
- Common rank
- #1,506
- Unicode
- U+60A3
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Words with 患
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生于忧患，死于安乐 | to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom); life springs from sorrow and cala… | |
| 精神病患 | mental illness | |
| 患难之交 | a friend in times of tribulations (idiom); a friend in need is a friend indeed | |
| 患难见真情 | true sentiments are seen in hard times (idiom); you see who your true friends are when you… | |
| 无患子 | Sapindales; order of scented bushes and trees, includes citrus fruit and lychee | |
| 人满为患 | packed with people; overcrowded; overpopulation | |
| 解离性人格疾患 | dissociative identity disorder; multiple personality disorder | |
| 心腹之患 | lit. calamity within one's bosom (idiom); major trouble hidden within | |
| 欲加之罪，何患无辞 | If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传); one… | |
| 有备无患 | Preparedness averts peril.; to be prepared, just in case (idiom) | |
| 患病者 | person suffering (from a disease or poisoning); a patient | |
| 防患于未然 | see 防患未然[fang2 huan4 wei4 ran2] | |
| 后患无穷 | (idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future | |
| 养虎为患 | lit. to nurture a tiger invites calamity; fig. to indulge one's enemy is asking for troubl… | |
| 防患未然 | to prevent troubles before the event (idiom); to forestall; to nip sth in the bud | |
| 共患难 | to go through hardship together | |
| 水患 | flooding; inundation | |
| 患儿 | child patient; pediatric patient | |
| 患有 | to contract (an illness); to be afflicted with; to suffer from | |
| 患上 | to come down with; to be afflicted with (an illness) |