🇨🇳 Chinese Emergencies & Health
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | Chinese | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| Help! | 救命！ | jiùmìng! |
| Call the police! | 快叫警察！ | kuài jiào jǐngchá! |
| Call an ambulance! | 快叫救护车！ | kuài jiào jiùhùchē! |
| I need a doctor | 我需要看医生 | wǒ xūyào kàn yīshēng |
| The pharmacy | 药店 | yàodiàn |
| The hospital | 医院 | yīyuàn |
| I feel sick | 我不舒服 | wǒ bù shūfu |
| It hurts here | 这里疼 | zhèlǐ téng |
| I'm allergic | 我过敏 | wǒ guòmǐn |
| I lost my passport | 我的护照丢了 | wǒ de hùzhào diū le |
| My phone was stolen | 我的手机被偷了 | wǒ de shǒujī bèi tōu le |
| It's an emergency | 这是紧急情况 | zhè shì jǐnjí qíngkuàng |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
More Chinese phrases
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