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出血 (chū xuè) — (medicine) to hemorrhage; to bleed; (colloquial) to spend money; to fork out

Definition

出血 literally means 'to bleed' and is used in medical contexts for hemorrhaging. Colloquially it is a vivid metaphor for spending a lot of money (literally 'shed blood' = 'fork out cash').

verb
(medicine) to hemorrhageto bleed(colloquial) to spend moneyto fork out

Examples

  • ，。
    Tā chū le hěn duō xuè, bì xū mǎ shàng sòng yī yuàn.
    He lost a lot of blood and must be rushed to the hospital immediately.
  • ，。
    Wèi le mǎi zhè ge lǐ wù, wǒ chū le bù shǎo xuè.
    To buy this gift, I spent quite a lot of money.
  • 出血。
    Tā zhè cì yòu chū xuè le.
    He forked out again this time.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

出chūcome out
血xuèblood

出 gives the sense of coming out, and 血 is the blood that comes out.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

出 combines 止 (foot) and 凵 (cave) to show a foot stepping out of a cave.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

  • 一一yīdrop of blood
  • 皿皿mǐncontainer

The shape shows 一, a drop of blood, inside 皿, a container, for blood held in a sacrificial vessel.

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