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生病

shēng bìng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

生病 (shēng bìng) means "to fall ill". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 生病 means

1. to fall ill

The characters in 生病

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 病bìngillness; disease; to fall ill

Example sentences

• 他生病了。
  He is ill.
• 他很生病。
  He's very ill.
• 我生病了。
  I am sick.
• 我没生病。
  I'm not sick.
• 她生病了。
  She is sick.
• 珍生病卧床。
  Zhēn shēngbìng wòchuáng.
  Jane is sick in bed.

Where 生病 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health and Weather (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng bìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.