(bìng) - illness, disease; to be ill in Mandarin
bìngTraditional: 病
Translation
illness, disease; to be ill
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the sickness radical marking illness and a phonetic element. It means illness or to be ill.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 疒 (sickness) + 丙 (bǐng, phonetic)
Stroke order
病
Examples
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He has fallen ill.
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This illness is very common.
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Her illness has cleared up.
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To see a doctor you go to hospital.
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He is seriously ill.
病 (bìng) means illness, disease, or to be ill. 生病 is to fall ill and 看病 is to see a doctor.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 病.
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