怀胎

懷胎
huáitāi
verb #28,758

Meanings

  1. 1 to be pregnant
  2. 2 to carry a child in the womb

Examples

Tā yǐjīng huáitāi qī gè yuè le.
She is already seven months pregnant.
Shíyuè huáitāi, yī zhāo fēnmiǎn.
Ten months of pregnancy, then childbirth in a single morning — describing the long journey of motherhood.

Tips

culture
The phrase 十月怀胎 (ten months of pregnancy) is a classical Chinese saying. Traditional Chinese counting measures pregnancy as roughly ten lunar months, which is close to the modern 40 weeks.

Stroke Order

怀 huái
tāi