医生
yī shēng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 醫生
A doctor: someone trained in medicine who examines and treats the sick. 看医生 is 'to go to the doctor's'. The place where many doctors work is a 医院 'hospital', with the same first character, 医 'medicine'.
Bác sĩ: người được đào tạo về y, khám và chữa bệnh. 看医生 là “đi khám bác sĩ”; nơi nhiều bác sĩ làm việc là 医院 (bệnh viện), cũng có chữ 医 (y) đứng đầu.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “y sinh” (y-sinh). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “医生” mean?
A doctor: someone trained in medicine who examines and treats the sick. 看医生 is 'to go to the doctor's'. The place where many doctors work is a 医院 'hospital', with the same first character, 医 'medicine'.
Is “医生” formal or informal?
医生 is generally neutral.