慢性

慢性 mànxìng in a sentence

Slow and patient; chronic (disease); slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

慢性 (mànxìng) means Slow and patient, chronic (disease), slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison) †. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他做事是 慢性 子,急不得。

Tā zuòshì shì mànxìngzi, jí bu dé.

He is slow and steady in his work and cannot be hurried.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 慢性

这是一种 慢性 病,需要长期治疗。

Zhè shì yì zhǒng mànxìng bìng, xūyào chángqī zhìliáo.

This is a chronic illness requiring long-term treatment.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 慢性

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How is 慢性 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 慢性 (mànxìng, "Slow and patient, chronic (disease), slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison) †"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 慢性 an HSK word?

Yes — 慢性 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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