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脉

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arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
9
Radical
肉 +5
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
脈
Common rank
#739
Unicode
U+8109

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Formation & memory

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How 脉 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Long 永 vessels through one's body ⺼

Components ⺼ 永

How to remember it

blood vessels · Heisig RSH #139

flesh + 永 eternity

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 脉

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
长山山脉 Cháng shān Shān mài Annamite Range, aka Annamese Cordillera, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam…
安南山脉 Ān nán Shān mài Annamite Range, aka Annamese Cordillera, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam…
阿拉干山脉 Ā lā gān Shān mài Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
乌拉尔山脉 Wū lā ěr Shān mài Ural Mountains
大动脉 dà dòng mài main artery (blood vessel); fig. main highway; arterial road
主动脉 zhǔ dòng mài aorta; principal artery
高加索山脉 Gāo jiā suǒ Shān mài Caucasus Mountains
喜马拉雅山脉 Xǐ mǎ lā yǎ shān mài Himalayas
安第斯山脉 Ān dì sī Shān mài the Andes Mountains (in South America)
博格达山脉 Bó gé dá Shān mài Bogda Shan mountain range in the Tian Shan mountains
阿尔泰山脉 Ā ěr tài shān mài Altai mountain chain on the border of Russia and Mongolia
基底动脉 jī dǐ dòng mài basilar artery (central artery of the brain)
十二经脉 shí èr jīng mài twelve channels of TCM
扎格罗斯山脉 Zā gé luó sī shān mài Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
来龙去脉 lái lóng qù mài (lit.) the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); (fig.) the whole sequence of events; caus…
人脉 rén mài contacts; connections; network
唐古拉山脉 Táng gǔ lā Shān mài Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
山脉 shān mài mountain range; CL:條|条[tiao2]
地脉 dì mài geographical position according to the principles of feng shui 風水|风水[feng1 shui3]; ley lin…
动脉 dòng mài artery

Sound family

These characters use 脉 as their sound component — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
脉 sound part mài a pulse; arteries, veins; blood vessels
霡 mài drizzle, light rain; favors, gifts