过敏 guòmǐn▶ Dị ứng

Stroke order

过敏 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 过 — 6 strokes
• 敏 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. (medicine) allergic; hypersensitive
2. (fig.) oversensitive; prone to overreact

Related words

• 度过Chi tiêu
• 敏感Nhạy cảm
• 过分quá mức
• 过期Quá hạn, quá thời hạn
• 不过Tuy nhiên
• 敏捷Nhanh nhẹn

过敏 is pronounced guòmǐn and means “Dị ứng”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 过敏 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.