脉 — Chinese character
脉
mài
a pulse; arteries, veins; blood vessels
- Pinyin
- mài
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 永
- Formation
- ideographic — Long 永 vessels through one's body ⺼
- Traditional
- 脈
- Japanese
- 脉 as a kanji
Common words with 脉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山脉 (山脈) | shān mài | mountain range; 条 (tiáo) |
| 脉冲 (脈衝) | mài chōng | pulse (physics) |
| 动脉 (動脈) | dòng mài | artery |
| 脉络 (脈絡) | mài luò | arteries and veins; network of blood vessels |
| 血脉 (血脈) | xuè mài | blood vessels |
| 脉搏 (脈搏) | mài bó | pulse (both medical and figurative) |
| 静脉 (靜脈) | jìng mài | vein |
| 来龙去脉 (來龍去脈) | lái lóng qù mài | (lit.) the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); (fig.) the whole sequence of events; causes and effects |
| 命脉 (命脈) | mìng mài | lifeline |
| 脉动 (脈動) | mài dòng | pulse; throbbing |
| 一脉相承 (一脈相承) | yī mài xiāng chéng | traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc) |
| 主动脉 (主動脈) | zhǔ dòng mài | aorta; principal artery |
English words written with 脉
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.