脉
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arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #739 U+8109
How 脉 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Long 永 vessels through one's body ⺼
How to remember it
blood vessels · Heisig RSH #139
flesh + 永 eternity
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 脉 as their sound component
These characters all use 脉 (mài) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 脉 sound component | mài | a pulse; arteries, veins; blood vessels |
| 霡 | mài | drizzle, light rain; favors, gifts |
Words containing 脉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长山山脉 | Cháng shān Shān mài | Annamite Range, aka Annamese Cordillera, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam… |
| 安南山脉 | Ān nán Shān mài | Annamite Range, aka Annamese Cordillera, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam… |
| 阿拉干山脉 | Ā lā gān Shān mài | Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar |
| 乌拉尔山脉 | Wū lā ěr Shān mài | Ural Mountains |
| 大动脉 | dà dòng mài | main artery (blood vessel); fig. main highway; arterial road |
| 主动脉 | zhǔ dòng mài | aorta; principal artery |
| 高加索山脉 | Gāo jiā suǒ Shān mài | Caucasus Mountains |
| 喜马拉雅山脉 | Xǐ mǎ lā yǎ shān mài | Himalayas |
| 安第斯山脉 | Ān dì sī Shān mài | the Andes Mountains (in South America) |
| 博格达山脉 | Bó gé dá Shān mài | Bogda Shan mountain range in the Tian Shan mountains |
| 阿尔泰山脉 | Ā ěr tài shān mài | Altai mountain chain on the border of Russia and Mongolia |
| 基底动脉 | jī dǐ dòng mài | basilar artery (central artery of the brain) |
| 十二经脉 | shí èr jīng mài | twelve channels of TCM |
| 扎格罗斯山脉 | Zā gé luó sī shān mài | Zagros mountains of southwest Iran |
| 来龙去脉 | lái lóng qù mài | (lit.) the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); (fig.) the whole sequence of events; caus… |
| 人脉 | rén mài | contacts; connections; network |
| 唐古拉山脉 | Táng gǔ lā Shān mài | Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau |
| 山脉 | shān mài | mountain range; CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| 地脉 | dì mài | geographical position according to the principles of feng shui 風水|风水[feng1 shui3]; ley lin… |
| 动脉 | dòng mài | artery |