存活率 (cún huó lǜ) — survival rate; recovery rate (in medical contexts)

Definition

Survival rate: the percentage of patients (or organisms) still alive after a given period, commonly reported as '五年存活率' (five-year survival rate).

noun
survival raterecovery rate (in medical contexts)

Examples

  • 存活率。
    Zhè zhǒng ái zhèng de wǔ nián cún huó lǜ zài bǎi fēn zhī bā shí yǐ shàng.
    The five-year survival rate for this cancer is over eighty percent.
  • 存活率。
    Xīn yào xiǎn zhù tí gāo le huàn zhě de cún huó lǜ.
    The new drug significantly improved the patients' survival rate.
  • 存活率。
    Zǎo qī zhěn duàn duì tí gāo cún huó lǜ zhì guān zhòng yào.
    Early diagnosis is crucial for improving the survival rate.

Origin

Derived word
构词法gòucífǎ
后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

存活survival
存cúnsurvive活huólive
联合Side by side
率lǜrate

存 and 活 together convey staying alive, while 率 gives the measured proportion.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
子子zǐ
Sound part声符shēngfú
才
才cái存cún
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

存 pairs 子 with 才, which was used for the sound.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
氵Written in full as水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
𠯑
𠯑𠯑活huó
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

活 is built from 氵 (water) and 𠯑, which shows the sound; 𠯑 later changed into 舌.

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

率 was drawn as a bird-catching net, with a stick above and below. In the form described, the lower horizontal stroke is missing, so the whole shape represents a rope.

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