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病

bìng

illness

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 丙 represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

疒  Meaning component

nè

  

sick

丙 sound component

丙  Sound component

bǐng

  

third

Evolution

病 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
病 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
病 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

病  

bìng

illness, sickness, disease; illness; CL:場|场[cháng]; disease; to fall ill; defect

Most common words with 病
Freq.
Word
Meaning

病

illness

病人

sick person

疾病

disease

病毒

virus

生病

to fall ill

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]raŋ-s

bjaengH

bìng

extreme illness


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 64.0397% of movies

389th most common character in movies

427th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+75C5

Shuowen

“病，疾加也。从疒，丙聲。”


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