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Chinese symbol for “clinical”

临床
lín chuáng
Traditional: 臨床
(medicine) clinical

The closest CC-CEDICT match for clinical is 临床 (lín chuáng), defined as: (medicine) clinical.

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Characters and stroke order

临 lín
to draw near, to approach; to descend
radical 2 ⼁ · 9 strokes
床 chuáng
bed, couch; framework, chassis
radical 53 ⼴ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 临床.

WordPinyinMeaning
面临 (面臨)miàn línto face sth; to be confronted with
临时 (臨時)lín shías the time draws near; at the last moment
来临 (來臨)lái línto approach; to come closer
降临 (降臨)jiàng línto descend; to arrive
临近 (臨近)lín jìnto approach; to draw near; to be close to (in space or time)
起床qǐ chuángto get out of bed; to get up
上床shàng chuángto go to bed; (coll.) to have sex
床单 (床單)chuáng dānbed sheet; 条 (tiáo),件 (jiàn),张 (zhāng),床 (chuáng)

See also: Japanese symbol for “clinical”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.