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感冒

gǎn mào 3–4

to catch cold; (common) cold; (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative); (Tw) to detest; can't stand

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
感 · 冒
Syllables
2
gǎn mào
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,621

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 感gǎn13 strokesHSK 2feel, perceive, emotion
  • 冒mào9 strokesHSK 3risk, brave, dare

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我感冒了。

    Wǒ gǎn mào le

    I caught the flu.

  • 他感冒了。

    Tā gǎn mào le

    He caught a cold.

  • 我得了重感冒。

    Wǒ dé le zhòng gǎn mào

    I've caught a bad cold.

  • 小心不要感冒了。

    Xiǎo xīn bù yào gǎn mào le

    Be careful not to catch a cold.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 感冒. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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