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病例

bìng lì

2-character word

What 病例 means

1. (medical) case
2. occurrence of illness

The characters in 病例

• 病bìngillness; disease; to fall ill
• 例lìexample; precedent; rule

Example sentences

• 今天下午，世界卫生组织证实了3000个新型冠状病毒病例，其中有100人死亡。
  Jīntiān xiàwǔ, Shìjiè Wèishēng Zǔzhī zhèngshí le sān qiān gè xīnxíng guānzhuàng bìngdú bìnglì, qí zhōng yǒu yī bǎi rén sǐwáng.
  This afternoon, the World Health Organization confirmed three thousand new cases of coronavirus, among which a hundred people died.

Sounds the same

Read bìng lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 病历medical record; case history
• 并立to exist side by side; to exist simultaneously