尿频 (niào pín) — frequent urination (medical term)

Definition

noun
frequent urination (medical term)

Examples

  • 尿频。
    Yī shēng shuō tā niào pín hěn yán zhòng.
    The doctor said his frequent urination is serious.
  • 尿频。
    Zhè ge yào kě yǐ zhì liáo niào pín.
    This medicine can treat frequent urination.
  • 尿频。
    Zuì jìn niào pín de wèn tí ràng wǒ shuì bù hǎo jué.
    The problem of frequent urination has been keeping me from sleeping well.

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.

尿niàourination
频pínfrequent

尿 (urination) and 频 (frequent) state that urination happens often.

Characters in this word

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

Originally it drew a person urinating. The old form used 尾 (tail) and 水 (water); 尾 later simplified to 尸 (body), so 尿 now shows 尸 and 水.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 頻; 频 is its simplified writing.

For 频, the traditional form 頻 came from an older form showing a person near water and meaning 'on the verge'; one part was later removed to mark the 'frequent' use.

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