查血 (chá xuè) — to have a blood test; to check blood (in a medical context)

Definition

查血 means 'to have a blood test' — 查 means to check/examine and 血 is short for 血液 (blood). It's a fixed medical phrase; the verb-object split is not used like a normal separable verb.

verb
to have a blood testto check blood (in a medical context)

Examples

  • 查血。
    Yī shēng ràng wǒ míng tiān qù yī yuàn chá xuè.
    The doctor told me to go to the hospital tomorrow for a blood test.
  • ，。
    Shàng ge yuè wǒ chá guò yí cì xuè, jié guǒ hěn zhèng cháng.
    I had a blood test last month, and the results were normal.
  • ，。
    Chōu wán xuè yǐ hòu, hù shi shuō xià zhōu lái ná bào gào.
    After drawing blood, the nurse said to come next week to get the report.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

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

查chácheck
血xuèblood

查 means to check, and 血 is blood: checking blood.

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
木木mùwood
Sound part声符shēngfú
且
且qiě查chá
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

查 pairs 木 (wood) with 且, which shows the sound. It originally meant a hawthorn tree or a wooden raft.

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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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