接触者

接觸者

jiēchùzhě

noun

Meanings

1 contact (epidemiology)
2 person who has had contact (with an infected case)

Characters

to touch / connect

Examples

所有密切接触者都要接受隔离观察。

Suǒyǒu mìqiè jiēchùzhě dōu yào jiēshòu gélí guānchá.

All close contacts must undergo quarantine observation.

流行病学调查会追踪接触者。

Liúxíngbìngxué diàochá huì zhuīzōng jiēchùzhě.

Epidemiological investigations trace contacts.

Tips

usage

密切接触者 (mìqiè jiēchùzhě, 'close contact') became a household phrase during COVID — it meant forced quarantine and a health-code color change. The -者 suffix turns a verb phrase into a person noun (作者 author, 读者 reader, 患者 patient).

Stroke Order

接 jiē

触 chù

者 zhě