Fever in Chinese (Mandarin): 发烧 (fāshāo)
发烧
fāshāo
fever
- Simplified
- 发烧
- Traditional
- 發燒
- Pinyin
- fāshāo
- Typed as
- fashao
Use it in a sentence
妹妹发烧了。
妹妹發燒了。
My younger sister has a fever.
The characters in 发烧
发 / 發
To send out; to start.
5 strokes
烧 / 燒
To burn. 火 (fire) is on the left.
10 strokes
发烧 is "send out burning", a fever. A thermometer is 体温计 (tǐwēnjì).
More examples with 发烧
我发烧了，不能上学。
我發燒了，不能上學。
Wǒ fāshāo le, bù néng shàngxué.
I have a fever and can't go to school.
宝宝发烧了。
寶寶發燒了。
Bǎobao fāshāo le.
The baby has a fever.
How to write 发烧 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
发 5 strokes
烧 10 strokes
In Traditional characters:
發 12 strokes
燒 16 strokes
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