Where 病 comes from
sickness
- Meaning part
- 疒 (“sickness”)
- Sound part
- 丙 (“third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干”)
How to write 病 (bìng, “illness”)
病 (bìng), an HSK 1 character, means “illness”, “disease” and “to fall ill”. It pairs a meaning part, 疒 (“sickness”), with a sound part, 丙 (“third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干”). On its own it is an HSK 1 word; it also forms 生病 (“to fall ill”), 看病 (“to visit a doctor”) and 病人 (“sick person”). Japanese reads it byou, “ill”, as a JLPT N4 kanji.
- Pinyin
- bìng
- Strokes
- 10
- HSK
- 1
- Radical
- 疒 (“sickness”)
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
As a top-left cover character it splits into 疒 (“sickness”, the radical), strokes 1–5; 丙 (“third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干”), strokes 6–10, written the cover first.
- topdown and right
- top leftrightwards
- top leftdownwards
- top leftdown and right
- leftrightwards
- centerrightwards
- centerdownwards
- centerrightwards → downwards
- centerdown and right → downwards
- centerdown and right
Japanese and Chinese
The two models differ in shape, so our comparison does not claim an order; compare the numbered frames yourself (10 strokes in Japanese, 10 strokes in Chinese).
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| bìng fourth tone | illness; disease; to fall ill; defect | — | 生病 看病 病人 病房 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 1
- 2021 standard
- level 1
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 2 word
- Words with it
- 337 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 病
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病 | bìng | illness; disease HSK 1 |
| 生病 | shēngbìng | to fall ill HSK 1 |
| 看病 | kànbìng | to visit a doctor; to see a patient HSK 1 |
| 病人 | bìngrén | sick person; patient HSK 3 |
| 病房 | bìngfáng | ward; sickroom HSK 5 |
| 病情 | bìngqíng | state of an illness; patient's condition HSK 5 |
| 毛病 | máobìng | fault; defect HSK 5 |
| 疾病 | jíbìng | disease; sickness HSK 5 |
| 发病 發病 | fābìng | to occur; to get sick HSK 6 |
| 传染病 傳染病 | chuánrǎnbìng | infectious disease; contagious disease HSK 6 |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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