Chinese word dictionary

除颤

chú chàn · to defibrillate; defibrillation

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Word information

Simplified除颤

Traditional除顫

Pinyinchú chàn

Part of speechDictionary

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HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

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除chú

to eliminate, to remove, to wipe out

颤chàn

to shiver, to tremble; trembling

How to learn 除颤

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Words with the same characters

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除了chúle

apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")

除夕chúxī

lunar New Year's Eve

删除shānchú

to delete; to cancel

拆除chāichú

to tear down; to demolish; to dismantle; to remove

除chú

to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including

除非chúfēi

only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when; only in the case that; unless