诊
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to examine or treat medically
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 診
- Common rank
- #1,722
- Unicode
- U+8BCA
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Formation & memory
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How 诊 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
讠 meaning “speech” + 㐱 sound
Components 讠 㐱
How to remember it
diagnose · Heisig RSH #2706
words + cocktail
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 诊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门诊部 | outpatient department | |
| 快速诊断测试 | rapid diagnostic test (RDT) | |
| 门诊室 | clinic; outpatient department (or consulting room) | |
| 听诊器 | stethoscope | |
| 会诊 | consultation (medical); to meet for diagnosis; (by extension) consultation of different sp… | |
| 出诊 | to visit a patient at home (of a doctor); house call | |
| 门诊 | outpatient service | |
| 义诊 | to provide free medical treatment; to provide medical treatment, donating consultation fee… | |
| 后诊 | postoperative examination | |
| 诊治 | to diagnose and treat | |
| 转诊 | to transfer (a patient for treatment in a different hospital) | |
| 急诊室 | emergency room | |
| 诊间 | examination room (in a doctor's office) | |
| 四诊 | (TCM) the four diagnostic methods: 望診|望诊[wang4 zhen3] (observation), 聞診|闻诊[wen2 zhen3] (li… | |
| 应诊 | to see patients (of doctor); to hold a surgery | |
| 诊所 | clinic | |
| 复诊 | another visit to doctor; further diagnosis | |
| 诊费 | medical fees | |
| 诊断 | to diagnose | |
| 挂急诊 | to register as an emergency case at a hospital |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 㐱 — compare how they read.