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病

bìng

HSK 2 Character Measure word 场

What 病 means

1. illness
2. disease
3. to fall ill
4. defect

Example sentences

• 她装病。
  Tā zhuāngbìng.
  She made believe that she was sick.
• 你有病！
  You're sick!
• 我病了。
  I'm sick.
• 他没病。
  He wasn't sick.
• 哈利病重。
  Hālì bìngzhòng.
  Harry fell seriously ill.
• 我要看病。
  I'd like to see a doctor.

Words starting with 病

• 病毒bìng dúvirus
• 病人bìng rénsick person; patient; invalid
• 病房bìng fángward (of a hospital); sickroom
• 病情bìng qíngstate of an illness; patient's condition
• 病床bìng chuánghospital bed; sickbed
• 病例bìng lì(medical) case; occurrence of illness
• 病历bìng lìmedical record; case history
• 病态bìng tàimorbid or abnormal state
• 病痛bìng tòngslight illness; indisposition; ailment
• 病症bìng zhèngdisease; illness
• 病逝bìng shìto die of illness
• 病死bìng sǐto fall ill and die; to die of illness
• 病倒bìng dǎoto fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
• 病重bìng zhòngseriously ill
• 病危bìng wēito be critically ill; to be terminally ill
• 病因bìng yīncause of disease; pathogen
• 病魔bìng móserious illness
• 病理bìng lǐpathology
• 病变bìng biànpathological changes; lesion; diseased (kidney, cornea etc)
• 病假bìng jiàsick leave
• 病友bìng yǒua friend made in hospital or people who become friends in hospital; wardmate
• 病号bìng hàosick personnel; person on the sick list; patient
• 病患bìng huànillness; disease; patient
• 病菌bìng jūnharmful bacteria; pathogenic bacteria; germs

Words containing 病

• 生病shēng bìngto fall ill
• 毛病máo bìngfault; defect; shortcomings
• 疾病jí bìngdisease; sickness; ailment
• 弊病bì bìngmalady; evil; malpractice
• 艾滋病ài zī bìng(loanword) AIDS
• 看病kàn bìngto visit a doctor; to see a patient
• 糖尿病táng niào bìngdiabetes; diabetes mellitus
• 有病yǒu bìngto be ill; (colloquial) to be not right in the head
• 治病zhì bìngto treat an illness
• 心脏病xīn zàng bìngheart disease
• 精神病jīng shén bìngmental disorder; psychosis
• 发病fā bìng(of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill…
• 传染病chuán rǎn bìnginfectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
• 神经病shén jīng bìngmental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case
• 患病huàn bìngto fall ill
• 重病zhòng bìngserious illness
• 性病xìng bìngsexually transmitted disease; venereal disease
• 白血病bái xuè bìngleukemia
• 精神病院jīng shén bìng yuànmental hospital; psychiatric hospital
• 得病dé bìngto fall ill; to contract a disease
• 肝病gān bìngliver disease
• 胃病wèi bìngstomach trouble; stomach illness
• 心病xīn bìnganxiety; sore point; secret worry
• 皮肤病pí fū bìngskin disease; skin condition; dermatosis

Characters built on 丙

These share the phonetic component 丙 (bǐng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 柄bǐnghandle or shaft (of an axe etc); (of a flower, leaf or fruit) stem…
• 炳bǐngbright; brilliant; luminous
• 邴bǐngancient city name; happy

Characters that look like 病

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 换huànto exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute
• 疾jí(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 偏piānto lean; to slant; oblique
• 涵hánto contain; to include; culvert
• 掘juéto dig
• 埚guōcrucible

Sounds the same

Read bìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 并and; furthermore; also
• 摒to discard; to get rid of
• 寎nightmare; start in sleep
• 靐thunder
• 幷variant of 并; variant of 并
• 倂variant of 并