医生 (yī shēng)

Character breakdown

• 医 (yī) · 7 strokes

  Originally depicted a quiver, a container for arrows. Later repurposed to mean "medicine" as a simplified form of the traditional character 醫.

• 生 (shēng) · 5 strokes

  Pictograph of a sprout (屮) emerging from the ground (一).

Example sentences

1. 她是医生。 — She is a doctor.
2. 他是医生。 — He is a doctor.
3. 我是医生。 — I'm a doctor.
4. 我想做医生。 — I want to be a doctor.
5. 他是医生吗？ — Is he a doctor?

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