患儿 (huàn ér) — child patient; pediatric patient

Definition

A medical/clinical term for a 'child patient' — more formal than 孩子 and almost always appears in hospital, pediatric, or research contexts.

noun

child patientpediatric patient

Measure word · 个

患儿。
Zhè wèi huàn ér xū yào zuò yí cì quán miàn jiǎn chá.
This child patient needs a full examination.
患儿。
Yī shēng zhèng zài gěi huàn ér zhì liáo.
The doctor is treating the child patient.
患儿。
huàn ér De bìng qíng yǐ jīng hǎo zhuǎn le.
The child patient's condition has improved.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

患 refers to being sick and 儿 to a child, giving a sick child or child patient.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

串心患

Meaning part形符xíngfú

心心xīnheart

Sound part声符shēngfú

串

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

患 is made from 心, a heart, plus 串, which gives the sound. Some old explanations also read the upper part as piercing through the heart.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 儿 is a simple drawing of a standing person, used as an alternate form of the character for person.

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