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doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
doctor; physician
HSK 3
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
to visit a doctor / to see a patient
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瞧* | 瞧* | *瞧
to look at / to see / to see (a doctor) / to visit
HSK 5
(coll.) to be fitted with an IUD; (of a doctor) to insert an IUD
(idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure
Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
HSK 2
ophthalmologist; eye doctor
traditional Chinese medical science / a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生
to see a doctor / to seek medical advice
HSK 7-9
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
doctor of medicine
doctor-patient
doctor
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
good doctor / skilled doctor
to seek medical treatment / to see a doctor
HSK 7-9
tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software
military doctor
medical personnel / doctors and nurses
to work as a doctor
lit. a reincarnation of Hua Tuo, the legendary physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty (idiom) / fig. a highly skilled and virtuous doctor; a miracle-working physician
barefoot doctor / farmer with paramedical training (PRC)
prescription (medicine) / doctor's advice
candid photograph / genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
doctor-in-charge / resident physician
famous doctor
Doctor of Philosophy; PhD
forensic pathologist; forensic doctor; medical examiner
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
witch doctor / medicine man / shaman
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
make-up artist / (fig.) spin doctor; reputation manager
(proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity) / Doctors Without Borders
doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful)
healer / physician / medical man / doctor (esp. of TCM)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *医* | 医* | *医
medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat
divine physician / sage doctor / highly skilled practitioner
doctors and nurses / medic / medical (personnel)
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
unlicensed doctor; quack; back-alley or itinerant practitioner
(of a doctor) to see a patient; to give a consultation / (of a patient) to see a doctor
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
waiting to see a doctor / awaiting treatment
fake / impostor / quack (doctor) / imitation brand
to visit a doctor
Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
to make a comeback / (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
Doctor of Letters
official in charge of medical affairs / respectful title for a doctor
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医
Doctor of Laws / Legum Doctor
Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942), one of five Indian doctors sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War
examination room (in a doctor's office)
Mr Gram / Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法
"drugs serving to nourish doctors", perceived problem in PRC medical practice
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
Sun Simiao (c. 581-682), doctor and herbalist of the Sui and Tang dynasty, author of Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 千金要方
to see patients (of doctor) / to hold a surgery
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
orthopedic doctor
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
(of a medical graduate) to undertake standardized training (as a resident doctor in a hospital) (abbr. for 規範化培訓|规范化培训)
(coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
to follow the doctor's advice / as instructed by the physician
Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)


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