脈 (mài)
pulse; arteries; veins; connections
How 脈 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- Traditional
- 脈
- Simplified
- 脉
Components
- 月 moon
- ⺁ cliff
- ㇒ N/A
- ㇗ N/A
脈 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- mài
- arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
- mò
- see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]
Common words using 脈
- 人脈 rénmài
- contacts; connections; network
- 動脈 dòngmài
- artery
- 山脈 shānmài
- mountain range; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 靜脈 jìngmài
- vein
- 龍脈 lóngmài
- dragon's vein, terrain that looks like a dragon
- 一脈相承 yīmàixiāngchéng
- traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
- 主動脈 zhǔdòngmài
- aorta; principal artery
- 來龍去脈 láilóngqùmài
- lit. mountain has a connecting pulse throughout like a dragon (idiom, from fengshui); sequence of events; pedigree; cause and effects
- 動脈硬化 dòngmàiyìnghuà
- hardening of the arteries; arteriosclerosis
- 含情脈脈 hánqíngmòmò
- full of tender feelings (idiom); tender-hearted
- 命脈 mìngmài
- lifeline
- 把脈 bǎmài
- to take pulse
脈 in a sentence
他在商場上的人脈很廣。
Tā zài shāngchǎng shàng de rénmài hěn guǎng.
“He has extensive connections in the business world.”
How common is 脈?
脈 is the 1,592nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.2% of all running text.
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