身孕 (shēn yùn) — pregnancy

Definition

noun
pregnancy

Examples

  • 身孕。
    Tā yǐ jīng yǒu le sān gè yuè de shēn yùn.
    She's already three months pregnant.
  • 身孕。
    Tā yīn wèi shēn yùn cí qù le gōng zuò.
    She quit her job because of her pregnancy.
  • 身孕。
    Dì yī cì gǎn shòu dào shēn yùn ràng tā fēi cháng jī dòng.
    Feeling the pregnancy for the first time made her very excited.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

孕yùnpregnant

身 'body' and 孕 'pregnant' together name the state of a pregnant body.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 身 comes from a drawing of a pregnant woman.

Open 身 →

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

孕 is drawn as a pregnant woman with a fetus.

Open 孕 →

Browse more HSK 7-9 words or search the full 43,000-word dictionary.