· 7 lists · 281 words
Body and health
Body parts, illness, the doctor, medicine, first aid.
What holds these lists together
Saying where it hurts uses a shape Chinese uses everywhere: first the topic, then a comment on it. 我头疼 is literally "I, head hurts", with no "my" and no "have". Illness takes verbs English would not choose: a fever is sent out, 发烧, and 感冒 is both the cold and catching it, so 我感冒了 is "I have a cold", the 了 saying that the state has arrived. Seeing a doctor usually means a hospital, where the first step is to register at a counter, 挂号. Two kinds of medicine stand side by side, 西医 and 中医, Western and traditional Chinese, and their vocabularies differ. The lists climb from the parts of the body to diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
The seven lists
Spread across the levels
The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.
| Level | Words | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 46 | 16 % |
| 3 | 76 | 27 % |
| 4 | 83 | 30 % |
| 5 | 76 | 27 % |
Practise this category
Multiple choice and gaps, across all seven lists and all 281 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.