ประ กัน สุข ภาพ
“ประ กัน สุข ภาพ” (пра кан сук пхап) — health insurance; travel insurance in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "insurance of health": the health word is from the clinic listings. For a Thai visa it is asked almost always; they ask it shortly: "insurance?" In a live sentence: “ประ กัน สุข ภาพ ราคา ถูก” — Health insurance is inexpensive. Written with the characters ป, ร, ะ, ก, น, ส, ุ, ข, ภ, า, พ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ประ กัน สุข ภาพ |
| Read in Latin letters | пра кан сук пхап |
| Translation | health insurance; travel insurance |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "insurance of health": the health word is from the clinic listings. For a Thai visa it is asked almost always; they ask it shortly: "insurance?"
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ประ กัน สุข ภาพ ราคา ถูกпра кан сук пхап ракхаа тхуукHealth insurance is inexpensive
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “health insurance; travel insurance” in Thai?
«ประ กัน สุข ภาพ», read “пра кан сук пхап”. In a live sentence: “ประ กัน สุข ภาพ ราคา ถูก” — Health insurance is inexpensive. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ป, ร, ะ, ก, น, ส, ุ, ข, ภ, า, พ.
How is “ประ กัน สุข ภาพ” written in Latin letters?
пра кан сук пхап. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "insurance of health": the health word is from the clinic listings. For a Thai visa it is asked almost always; they ask it shortly: "insurance?" A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.