咳血

kéxuè

verb

Meanings

1 to cough up blood
2 hemoptysis

Characters

Examples

HSK 3

他咳血了,得马上去医院。

Tā kéxuè le, děi mǎshàng qù yīyuàn.

He's coughing up blood, he needs to go to the hospital right away.

HSK 6

长期咳血可能是肺部疾病的信号。

Chángqī kéxuè kěnéng shì fèibù jíbìng de xìnhào.

Long-term coughing up blood may be a sign of lung disease.

Tips

mistakes

血 takes the formal/medical reading xuè in clinical terms like 咳血, 咯血, 便血, 输血. The colloquial spoken pronunciation xiě is informal-only and not used in writing or medicine.

Stroke Order

咳 ké

血 xuè