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HSK
(idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure
doctor; physician
HSK 3
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
to work as a doctor
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
doctor-in-charge / resident physician
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
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
candid photograph / genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
to seek medical treatment / to see a doctor
HSK 7-9
make-up artist / (fig.) spin doctor; reputation manager
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)
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
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
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
Doctor of Letters
doctor-patient
famous 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
to follow the doctor's advice / as instructed by the physician
ophthalmologist; eye doctor
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  *瞧* | 瞧* | *瞧
to look at / to see / to see (a doctor) / to visit
HSK 5
doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful)
tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
to see a doctor / to seek medical advice
HSK 7-9
witch doctor / medicine man / shaman
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
(proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
traditional Chinese medical science / a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
prescription (medicine) / doctor's advice
medical personnel / doctors and nurses
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
fake / impostor / quack (doctor) / imitation brand
forensic pathologist; forensic doctor; medical examiner
to visit a doctor
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
(coll.) to be fitted with an IUD; (of a doctor) to insert an IUD
to visit a doctor / to see a patient
HSK 1
waiting to see a doctor / awaiting treatment
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
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
(of a doctor) to see a patient; to give a consultation / (of a patient) to see a doctor
good doctor / skilled doctor
doctor of medicine
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
military doctor
Doctor of Philosophy; PhD
Doctor of Laws / Legum Doctor
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
doctors and nurses / medic / medical (personnel)
unlicensed doctor; quack; back-alley or itinerant practitioner
to make a comeback / (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
divine physician / sage doctor / highly skilled practitioner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掛* | 掛* | *掛
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *醫* | 醫* | *醫
medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat
doctor
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
to see patients (of doctor) / to hold a surgery
(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)
Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
HSK 2
barefoot doctor / farmer with paramedical training (PRC)
another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
"drugs serving to nourish doctors", perceived problem in PRC medical practice
Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942), one of five Indian doctors sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War
(coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity) / Doctors Without Borders
examination room (in a doctor's office)
official in charge of medical affairs / respectful title for a doctor
orthopedic doctor
to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)
(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
healer / physician / medical man / doctor (esp. of TCM)


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