咳血

kéxuè

verb

Meanings

1 to cough up blood
2 hemoptysis

Characters

Examples

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.

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