早产儿

早產兒
zǎochǎn'ér
noun #32,933

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 premature baby
  2. 2 preterm infant

Examples

Zhè jiā yīyuàn zhuānmén zhàogù zǎochǎn'ér.
This hospital specializes in caring for premature babies.
Tā shì gè zǎochǎn'ér, dàn xiànzài hěn jiànkāng.
She was a premature baby, but she's very healthy now.

Tips

memory
Built transparently as ('early') + ('to give birth') + ('child'): 'early-birth child'. The here is a true noun ('child'), not the Beijing -r suffix. Same 早产 root gives you 早产 ('to give birth prematurely', verb).

Stroke Order

zǎo
chǎn
ér